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PROF. F. H. CRANE’S 

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Manual of Instructions 

TO UNDERTAKERS, 


WITH 


Full and Complete Instructions in the Best 

Methods for 


Preserving the Dead, 



Including Minute Directions 


Arterial Injection, 


With Plates Illustrating the Location of the 

Principal Arteries. 


REVISED EDITION. 










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Copyright, 1888, 

By CRANE & ALREN, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 


















Printed by Kalamazoo Publishing Co. 








REVISED EDITION. 


It is to be understood that this Manual of 
Instruction is not for sale , but is only for your 
information and instruction while using the Excelsior 
Preservative, and that it will not be furnished to any 
other than our customers at any price. 

Therefore we trust that you will keep this Manual 
under lock and key, or where no person other than 
yourself or your regular assistants can have access 
to it, as it contains all of the information and 
instructions that you could heretofore have gained 
by personal attendance on mine or any course of 
lectures on Embalming, at much expense of time and 
money, with the single exception of a practical demon¬ 
stration of the operation of taking up and injecting 
the Arteries. 

This is, however, so fully and minutely described 
and explained in the Manual, with the aid of 
accurate drawings of the principal arteries — see 
Chapters IX ) X and XI —that the operation can be 
easily learned without any other instruction. 

E. H. CRANE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 


Chap. I.—Ancient Embalming. 

“ II.—Care of Ordinary Cases. 

“ III.—Cases requiring Cavity Injection. 

“ IY.—Cases requiring a full Treatment without 
Arterial Injection. 

“ Y.—Treatment in Cases indicating an Absence of 

immediate Ilesults and final Success. 

“ yi.—The Preservative as a Disinfectant and Pre- 

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, ventative of Contagious Diseases. 

“ yil.—The Preservative put up in Bottles for the 
use of Unprofessional Persons. 

“ yill.—Embalming by Arterial Injection. 

“ IX.—Injection of the Carotid Artery. (Illustration 
of location of Carotid Artery.) 

“ X.—Injection of the Brachial Artery. (Illustration 
of location of Brachial Artery.) 

“ XI.—Injection of the Femoral Artery. (Illustra¬ 
tion of location of Femoral Artery.) 

“ XII.—Precautions to observe for the Safety of the 
Operator in Embalming. 

“ XIII.—Chemical Affinities. 

“ Xiy. —Advantages to the Undertaker of Scientific 
Embalming. 

“ Xy. —Absorption by the Capillaries. 

“ XyI.—Embalming Instruments. 

“ Xyil.—Caution in Storing and Keeping the Pre¬ 
servative. 

Appendix, with commendatory letters, . . Page 48 

Xote—Care of the Manual, .... “141 

Letter to our Customers,.“ 142 



PROF. E. H. CRANE’S 


Manual of Instructions 

TO UNDERTAKERS. 


CHAPTER I. 

Ancient Embalming. 

It is my object in these instructions to lay before 
the undertakers of this country a minute and detailed 
description of the only reliable process, and best meth¬ 
od known , for the preservation and embalming of the 
dead, and at the same time to submit to them the im¬ 
portant details to be followed out so condensed and 
free from unnecessary and superfluous language that 
the methods used shall be plain to any one, believing 
that any matter not strictly pertaining to the subject 
is out of place in a Manual of Instruction. 

Long study and experiment in this interesting- 
science has brought to light many valuable and prac¬ 
tical results, and it is from actual tests and experi¬ 
ments extending over nearly a quarter of a century 
that I have devoted to this subject that has enabled 
me to say that with the aid of my Excelsior Preser¬ 
vative the Undertaker may rely with entire and per¬ 
fect confidence, upon meeting with complete success 



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in each and every case to which he may be called, 
and I can assure him that after using the Excelsior 
Preservative, he will have no desire to return to the 
use of ice, or any other preparation he may have 
used in the past. 

The Egyptians embalmed their dead by a tedious 
process, which occupied from sixty to ninety days— 
constant attention and care being required. They 
always removed the brain, stomach and intestines, 
which last were sometimes deprived of their excre¬ 
ment and replaced in the body, and when they were 
called to embalm very fleshy subjects all of the adi¬ 
pose or fatty substances that could be removed were 
taken out of the bodies; this done, they were next 
bathed, or even immersed, in a solution of Arsenic, 
Asphaltum, Oil of Cedar, Gum Myrrh, and any or all 
of the aromatic spices that they could possess them¬ 
selves of without respect to kind or quantity. After 
which the body was subjected to slow and steady 
heat for from sixty to ninety days ; the application of 
the solution being repeated several times (smoke was 
also used in some cases); when the moisture was fin¬ 
ally expelled from the body they were wrapped or 
rather wound with narrow strips of linen cloth from 
head to foot. These cloths were also saturated with 
Asphaltum, Arsenic and Gum Myrrh, which soon be¬ 
came dried and cemented together in a manner to 
prevent moisture from permeating the body as*long 
as the wrapping remained intact. 

Thus it will be observed that the Egyptian meth¬ 
od is not a lost art, as has been supposed, neither 
would any person living under the present age of 
improvement allow it to be practiced on their dead. 


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It lias been often remarked by those not informed 
in such matters, that the Egyptian method could not 
be fully analyzed or a new and better method discov¬ 
ered to take its place ; but, fortunately, this is a great 
mistake. 

The Peruvians equalled the Egyptian method 
without removing anything from the body, and all 
they used was smoke and heat. When the moisture 
was fully evaporated from the body it was placed 
in a dry, rocky tomb. Many of these mummies have 
been discovered in a fine state of preservation, and 
few, if any, are prepared to say but that these an¬ 
cient dead have been lying in their rock-hewn tombs 
as long as the so-called Egyptian mummies have 
in the catacombs of Egypt. 

I have given the above, as you will be asked many 
times in regard to the Egyptian method of embalm¬ 
ing, and it will be a very great advantage to you in 
being able to give the information called for. 

There are a number of so-called preserving or 
embalming preparations, sold as such (some having a 
little merit as a temporary preservative), but none of 
them possessing all the requirements of a perfect pre¬ 
servative, deodorizer and embalming compound. 

Perfection , however, has been attained in the Ex¬ 
celsior Preservative, it being a perfect deodorizer, and 
for preserving and embalming the dead it surpasses 
anything known either in ancient or modern times. 

Having explained the ancient method of preserv¬ 
ing the dead, I will now take up the science as per¬ 
fected, with the aid of the Excelsior Preservative and 


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the practical instructions, which I herewith lay be¬ 
fore you. 

With this manual in your possession, you will be 
enabled to attain that perfection in the art of preserv¬ 
ing and embalming the dead which the educated and 
refined taste of the people of this day require of your 
profession. 



CHAPTER II. 


Directions for the Care of Ordinary Cases. 

To handle and preserve an ordinary case in warm 
weather, when the body is only to be kept one or two 
days, the undertaker will find my process very much 
easier than any of the old methods (in fact not half 
the work). In a case of this kind (as the ice-box or 
icing is done away with or omitted), all the under¬ 
taker has to do is to lay the body out, with the head 
from ten to twelve inches higher than the feet (the 
higher the head the better ), and inject with the Syringe, 
using the large bent tube, say one-half of a pint of 
the Preservative into the nose or mouth, which will 
immediately run down the throat into the lungs and 
stomach, and prevent any fermentation or decay of 
any substance that may be in them. The body 
should be raised up in the sitting posture if there is 
any difficulty in injecting down the throat. 

Then wet a large cloth (a large towel is the best ,) 
with the Preservative and lay it over the chest and 
abdomen. This should be kept wet with the Preser¬ 
vative from four to eight hours, the longer the better; 
also wet cloths with the Preservative and lay over 
the face and hands. Be particular to press the cloth 
down well around the eyes, ears and neck. This 
effectually prevents any discoloration, or if it has al¬ 
ready turned dark, the complexion will be restored 
as white as in life. 


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These cloths should also be kept wet with the 
Preservative from four to six hours, and even longer 
in some cases; this is all very quickly done, and easy 
to do by any one after they once understand it. 

Now leave the body in this position on the in¬ 
clined board for about 18 to 24 hours, when it can 
be dressed and placed in the casket. The cloths 
can now be removed from the face during the day, 
but should be replaced during the night and be kept 
wet with the Preservative, as a certain preventative 
against discoloration. 

The undertaker can leave orders with the friends 
to wet these clothes and lay them over the face at 
night, thus saving himself the trouble of going back 
to look after it. 

Eemember, it is always best to let the body lie in 
the inclined position about 24 hours before placing it 
in the casket, and if kept in the casket over night 
the foot end of the casket should be lowered during: 
the night-time in order that the inclined position 
of the body may be retained. 


CHAPTEK III. 


Directions to Observe in a More Obstinate 

Case. 

When the body is to be kept longer, it is best to 
first empty the stomach of whatever mucous or other 
substance can be got out of it. This is done easiest 
by turning the body onto its side, with the head 
drooping a little over the side of the bed or couch 
or whatever the body may be lying upon, and by 
pressing with your hand upon the stomach a portion 
of its contents will run out. 

A washbowl or chamber, placed in a chair, is 
handiest for this purpose. (And here I would say, 
it is always best to inject into the stomach about one- 
quarter of a pint of the Preservative before atempt- 
ing to empty it, as this will so effectually deodorize 
the contents of the stomach that no offensive odor or 
smell will arise when you empty it into the vessel, 
thus keeping the room free from stench.) 

Immediately after emptying the stomach, place 
the body in an inclined position, with the head ten 
or twelve inches higher than the feet, as before stated 
(preferably on the cooling board if you have one, and 
the steeper the incline the better), and again inject 
with the syringe about one pint of the Preservative 
into the stomach. 


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This, as before stated, will effectually prevent 
any further fermentation or decay of any substance 
remaining in the stomach. 

And as a further safeguard against any substance 
running out of the mouth, and consequent staining 
of the pillow or lining of the casket, it is well to stop 
up the throat with a little cotton. For this purpose 
you should have an instrument (it may be of wood) 
made in the shape of a spoon handle and about eight 
inches long; with this you can easily push a ball of 
cotton saturated with the Preservative well down 
the throat. This is a precaution that should never be 
omitted when the body is to be kept any great length 
of time, or when it has to be transported on the cars 
or other conveyance to any distance. 

It is well to stop up the nose in the same way, 
but it must be done very neatly, so as not to show 
or change the appearance of it. Having thus at¬ 
tended to the stomach, you will next bathe the face, 
neck and whole body (if at all convenient), with the 
Preservative, using for this purpose a large lather 
brush, which is better than a sponge or cloth, as you 
can do the work much quicker and easier with the 
brush. 

The rectum at this time should be injected with 
the Preservative and stopped with a ball of cotton 
saturated with the same. This should he well done , 
to guard against purging, and should never be omit¬ 
ted where there is any apparent danger of purging, 
or where the body is to be moved to any considera¬ 
ble distance before burial. Also puncture the ab¬ 
domen with the Gas-trocar, and inject through the 


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Gas-trocar into the cavity of the body around the 
bowels about one pint of the Preservative. 

A large cloth or towel should also be wet with 
the Preservative and laid over the chest and abdomen, 
covering it well over; and in order that it will hold 
the moisture for several hours, it is best that the 
cloth should be several thicknesses over the abdomen, 
and should be kept wet with the Preservative by 
pouring from the bottle along the center of the cloth 
from time to time as long as the body is to be kept, 
or during the first two days when the burial is to 
take place on the third day, and if the burial is to 
take place on the fourth, fifth or sixth day, this cloth 
should be kept wet the first three days, and when the 
body is to be kept ten or fifteen days , this cloth should 
be kept wet proportionately longer. 

This part of the work should be remembered and 
well attended to, as it is a well-known fact that 
decomposition and putrescence first makes its ap¬ 
pearance in the bowels and stomach. 

It is here the Preservative does its most thorough 
work, as, by keeping the cloths wet over the abdomen 
and stomach, the Preservative, to a very great extent, 
permeates the whole body , and is a valuable safeguard 
against bloating; and if bloating has not already 
commenced, it will never make its appearance after 
you commence to use the Preservative as above 
directed, and in very many cases it has been known 
to arrest and reduce bloating by its use as directed. 
As much depends upon absorption, the more of the 
Preservative there is applied externally, as above 
directed, the better results there will be obtained. 


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The face, neck, ears and hands should be well 
bathed with the Preservative, using the brush for 
this purpose, and if the ears have turned black you 
can remove the color in five minutes by keeping them 
wet with the Preservative, and pressing or squeezing 
them with your hand, and it is always well to do 
this when they have turned very dark. 

However, the cloths that you have before been 
instructed to wet with the Preservative and lay over 
the face, neck and hands, will effectually remove all 
discoloration or prevent its appearance. 

These cloths should be well pressed down around 
the eyes, nose, neck and ears, so as to be sure that 
the cloths touch every spot. The cloths can be kept 
moist by applying a little of the Preservative from 
time to time, without removing the cloths to wet 
them. These cloths should be kept on from ten to 
twelve hours, after which they can be removed 
through the day and replaced through the night. 

If this process is kept up there will be a natural 
and life-like appearance preserved, without the least 
discoloration, and the face will look better at the end 
of the third or fourth day, or even a week, than it 
did at death. In the free use of this Preservative, 
the longer you keep a body the better it will look. 

The use of the Preservative in this way will not 
only preserve the body, but will effectually purify 
and deodorize the room, driving away all offensive 
smell, however bad it might have been at first, and 
perfectly disinfecting the house of all possibility of 
contagion, thus insuring safety to yourself and pre¬ 
venting further spread of the disease in the family. 


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This entire process will take less than thirty 
minutes of your time. The body should be kept in 
the inclined position from 20 to 30 hours, with the 
head at least twelve inches higher than the feet, (the 
easiest way to obtain this position is to drop the foot 
end of the board on the floor), at the end of which 
time it can be dressed and placed in the casket, but 
the dress should be left loose, so that the cloths over 
the chest and abdomen can be wet from time to time 
with the Preservative, as before directed, or you can 
insert the Gas-trocar through the clothing and inject 
the Preservative in on to the body and thus keep the 
cloths wet, and if kept in the casket over night, lower 
the foot end of it, as before directed. 

It is also well to leave directions with the friends 
to bathe the face and neck once in two or three hours 
with the Preservative, using the brush for that pur¬ 
pose, and the cloths should be replaced on the face 
and hands during the night, as before stated. 

A body treated in the foregoing manner can be 
kept for a week or ten days in any kind of weather 
(the very warmest ) with perfect safety, and with com¬ 
paratively little trouble' to yourself you will have 
conferred a very great favor on the friends of the 
deceased, by thus giving them an opportunity of 
looking upon the remains from day to day, as often 
and as long as they wish, and also giving them all the 
time they may want to arrange and re-arrange the 
dress, hair and flowers preparatory to the funeral. 
It will readily be seen that this would be very much 
more satisfactory to any one, and much more in keep¬ 
ing with the refined taste of the present day, than 


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the practice of hiding the body away to be frozen in 
the unsightly ice box, which is always a horror to 
the friends of the deceased. 


CHAPTER IY. 

Directions to Observe in a still More 
Obstinate and Difficult Case. 

Where the body is badly bloated, when you are 
tirst called, it is best, immediately alter attending to 
the stomach (as before instructed) to let off the gas 
from the cavities of the body. This is best done with 
the Gas-trocar, if you have one, as with this instru¬ 
ment, and having a small rubber pipe attached to it, 
you can puncture the abdomen or cavity of the body 
with the point of the Gas-trocar, and by extending 
the rubber pipe out of the window, the gas ( which 
has a very offensive odor), will pass out of the win¬ 
dow through the pipe, thus saving any disagreeable 
smell, for the time being, in the room. Many 
however, puncture the abdomen in several places and 
let the gas off in the room, as the Preservative will 
soon deodorize and purify the room. 

It is sometimes necessary to puncture the body 
in two or three places, in order to get rid of all the 
gasses, but seldom more than once, as in nine cases 
out of ten the gas will all escape in less than two 
minutes from one opening. 



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Immediately after the gas has escaped, insert the 
point of the Syringe and inject one or two pints of 
the Excelsior Preservative into the cavity of the 
abdomen, which will pass all around the bowels and 
arrest any further decomposition or putreeence, and 
entirely prevent any further accumulation of gas or 
possibility of bloating. You can inject the Preserva¬ 
tive through the Gas-trocar. 

If you have found it necessary to make more than 
one incision with the Gas-trocar or knife, it is well 
to inject some of the Preservative into every opening 
made, even to the extent of three pints or more. 

Whenever it is desirable for any reason to avoid 
leaving any external mark of the puncture, it should 
be made at the navel, first drawing the loose fold of 
skin at one side and puncturing through the navel; 
then, when the trocar is withdrawn the loose skin 
around the navel returns to its natural position. The 
trocar can be pointed downwards and to each side, 
injecting some of the Preservative in each place, thus 
accomplishing the thorough injection of the abdomi¬ 
nal cavity from only one point of insertion. 

In case it may be deemed necessary to inject the 
thorax ( or cavity of the chest) raise or extend one 
of the arms and puncture and inject through the 
axilla or armpit. 

The stomach may be reached from the point of 
insertion at the navel by pointing the Gas-trocar up¬ 
wards at an acute angle, inclining it a little to the 
left in a line with the top of the left shoulder. The 
foregoing methods of injection have the advantage of 
leaving no visible trace of the operation. 


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It is also important (and not to be forgotten ) to 
puncture the bladder with the Gas-trocar and draw 
off the urine. This is easily done by placing a wash¬ 
bowl or chamber in a chair and, after puncturing the 
bladder, turn the body on its side, and the urine will 
escape through the instrument at once, but if in some 
cases it might not escape through the Gas-trocar 
readily in this position it certainly will by raising the 
body to a sitting posture. 

The point for the insertion of the Trocar to reach • 
the bladder is just at the top of the os pubes or pubic 
bone (the bone uniting the hips in front at the bottom 
of the abdominal cavity), making the puncture in a 
line with the navel as near the top of the bone as you 
can and inclining the point of the Trocar a little 
downwards behind the bone. 

Remember, always after the urine has been taken 
away, to inject at least half a pint of the Preservative 
into the bladder. It is important that this part of 
the work should be well done, for unless this precau¬ 
tion is taken, the urine is certain to escape more or 
less in the natural way on the second or third day. 

And whenever the bladder is not thus attended to, 
you must never omit the simple precaution of putting 
on a good heavy diaper; say, double up a large sheet 
and use plenty of cotton well saturated with the 
Preseruative, and do up the parts as snugly as a 
mother would her child, remembering to saturate 
these cloths again the second, third and fourth day, 
by pouring Preservative from the bottle on the dia¬ 
pers, thus deodorizing any escape that may have 
taken place, in order that there may be no disa- 


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grceable smell arising from this source on the day 
of the funeral. 

This part of the practice is not new to those well 
up in the profession, but I have thought best to call 
your attention to these facts in order that no import¬ 
ant point should be overlooked by any one. 

This done, in addition to the treatment according 
to the foregoing instructions, I term partial embalm¬ 
ing, and the entire time consumed in thus taking care 
of a body will not exceed one hour. And if the Pre¬ 
servative is used freely and my instructions are carried 
out in this process of treating a case, there will never 
be a failure , and the body in every instance will be as 
effectually preserved for ten, twenty or thirty days, 
as it would under a treatment of full embalming for 
all time. 




CHAPTER Y. 


Cases Indicating Absence of 
Immediate Results. 

In some cases the appearances of the body- 
under treatment may indicate a want of immediate 
results from the application of the Preservative as 
the same case would from any kind of treatment. 
Which may be from the fact that from the nature of 
the disease or from circumstances connected with the 
death of the subject, decomposition sets in very rapid¬ 
ly, in some cases the blood and fluids of the body 
being in a state of rapid progress towards disintegra¬ 
tion even before death, and although the Preservative 
permeates the tissues of the body very readily, the 
amount of actual contact of it is so limited in propor¬ 
tion to the whole mass of animal matter to be pre¬ 
served, that some time must be allowed for sufficient 
saturation. 

When such indications appear, do not be discour¬ 
aged or allow the fears of the friends of the deceased 
of your ultimate failure deter you, but continue to 
persist in your work as you have been directed in 
these pages, neglecting or omitting no part of the 
process, allowing time enough for thorough saturation 
of the body with the Preservative, and the case will 
invariably come out all right, provided that the rules 
have all been carefully followed, and in fact a body 
under such careful and persistent treatment will pre- 


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sent a better appearance after the third or fourth day 
than before. 

I will here call your attention to the fact, if there 
are any disagreeable odors in the room when you are 
first called to attend the dead, a little of the Preserva¬ 
tive sprayed about the room will effectually deodorize 
and disinfect it, rendering it at once pure and whole¬ 
some, remembering that the Excelsior Preservative 
will not stain or injure any clothing or fabric with 
which it may come in contact. 


CHAPTER VI. 


Prevention of Contagious or Infectious 

Diseases. 

Many of our customers sell large quantities of 
the Preservative to disinfect sick-rooms. If sprayed 
around the rooms it will purify and deodorize them 
in five minutes, thereby arresting contagion. The 
best way to deodorize a room or the house, is to sus¬ 
pend a good-sized sponge saturated with the Preserv¬ 
ative, in each room, with a plate underneath to catch 
the drip, and when dry saturate again from the plate. 

A little of the Preservative should be poured into 
the chamber utensils, and it should also be sprinkled 
or sprayed on articles coming into contact with the 
infectious matter, also on the clothing of those attend¬ 
ing the sick before leaving the sick-room, in order to 
avoid carrying the infection outside. 

Whenever the Preservative is used freely in sick¬ 
rooms or throughout the house, where there is a case 
of scarlet fever or diphtheria, there will be no further 
spread of those diseases in the family. In this respect 
the Preservative is invaluable, and the Undertaker 
who wishes to push its sale on the merits of its value 
as a disinfectant for sick-rooms, will find it called for 
in time by nearly every family in his community. 

The Preservative has been successfully used in 
epidemics of scarlet fever in many instances in the 
past, preventing its further spread whenever it has 


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been freely and faithfully applied; and although I 
have no personal knowledge of its application as a 
disinfectant * and preventative in yellow fever epi¬ 
demics, I have no doubt whatever of its great use¬ 
fulness in confining that dread disease in narrow 
limits, knowing from actual experience its effective¬ 
ness in neutralizing and destroying septic matter and 
all germs of contagion of every nature and kind. 




CHAPTER VII. 


Sale of the Preservative to Unprofessional 

Persons. 

You will no doubt have customers who will only 
buy the casket and who will not require your attend¬ 
ance in laying out and caring for their dead, and we 
would suggest a source of profit and advantage to 
you in such cases in recommending the purchase of a 
bottle or two of the Preservative with directions for 
using on the face and exposed portions of the body, 
and such other uses as may be appropriate in each 
case. We can furnish the Preservative put up in 
bottles, labeled with directions for its use by unprofes¬ 
sional persons as a face application and as a disinfect¬ 
ant and deodorizer. 

The greatly improved appearance of a body that 
has been even so partially treated with the Preserva¬ 
tive, will not only make your customer’s investment in 
it entirely satisfactory to them, but it will be also an 
advertisement for and an aid to your business. It will 
be, in a professional point of view, entirely proper in 
such cases, and in cases of infectious diseases, to make 
the Preservative an article of merchandise, as it will 
aid in introducing and familiarizing the idea of em¬ 
balming in your community; and will not at all inter¬ 
fere with, but will rather create a demand for your 
services as an Embalmer, for the use of the Preserv¬ 
ative in such a limited way would only tend to make 


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popular its more extended use, but as we furnish it 
only to the Undertaking Fraternity , it is for them and 
not for us to put it upon the market in that way or 
not, as they may choose. 


CHAPTEE VIII. 

Embalming by Arterial Injection. 

If circumstances render it desirable that the body 
shall be fully embalmed and preserved for an indefinite 
length of time, the Arterial Circulation should be 
filled with the Excelsior Preservative. 

It is essential that you should have a thorough 
knowledge of all of the details of the methods used 
for the preservation of the dead by partial embalm¬ 
ing or cavity injection as it is sometimes called, and 
to have some experience in the care of the dead by 
the processes already described, or at least to fully 
understand them, as it is necessary for the very best 
results from Arterial injection that the entire process 
of preserving and partial embalming of a body should 
be carefully and faith fully performed, according to 
previous instructions, as it is equally as necessary as 
the injecting of the Arterial Circulation, and no part 
or portion of the previous instructions tor preserving 
should ever be omited in a case of full embalming. 

You can very easily learn from any physician 
where to find the arteries, how to distinguish them 



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from the veins and nerves, and how to take them up 
and inject them, and it will be only necessary for you 
to have one ocular demonstration by your family 
physician how the operation is performed which with 
the minute directions T will now give you, will be 
sufficient, in fact, quite a large number of our custom¬ 
ers who are now proficient in the art, have become so 
without any teaching other than that they have 
gained by reading and studying over carefully my 
directions, and practicing, whenever there were op¬ 
portunities, and if you will procure the proper 
instruments and practice by yourself alone (and you 
will find many oportunities to practice upon subjects 
not requiring full embalming) you can acquire the 
necessary skill without personal instructions from any 
one. 

Either of the three great arteries, viz: The 
Carotid, Femoral or Brachial may be selected for the 
operation, as it makes no difference in its effectiveness, 
all of the arteries of the body inosculating or inter¬ 
communicating with each other as well as being con¬ 
nected at the heart as a central point. 

The arteries after death are flattened or collapsed, 
which is due to the fact that the blood is congealed 
in the veins, leaving the arteries empty and pale. 
Every artery has its corresponding vein by its side 
from which it is easily distinguished, as the veins are 
of a bluish color, while the arteries are of a creamish 
white. There is usually a nerve in close proximity to 
the artery, and although nearly of the same color, it 
may be distinguished by its being rounder and not 
being hollow like the artery. Taken between the 


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thumb and finger the artery has the feeling of a hollow 
tube, while the nerve feels more solid to the touch 
being filled with a fibrous substance, something of 
the consistency of marrow. 

The Carotid or great Artery of the neck (see illus¬ 
tration) being the largest one of the whole body, is 
used for the injection by some Embalmers, but in 
many cases it is necessary to avoid having the marks 
of the incision show, as would be the case with child¬ 
ren dressed low in the neck. The Femoral, or main 
artery of the thigh (see illustration) is also objection¬ 
able from the necessary exposure while performing 
the operation, and as the Arterial Circulation can be 
filled equally as well from the Brachial or large 
artery of the arm, I would advise its selection, and 
as a rule, the confining of your practice to that 
location, as it is best to be expert in performing the 
operation by the one method rather than to be 
awkward from lack of sufficient practice from trying 
too many ways unless your opportunities for practice- 
ing are greater than is ordinarily the case. 





CHAPTER IX. 


Directions for Locating and Injecting the 

Carotid Artery. 

The Carotid Artery lies nearer the surface, mid¬ 
way between the angle of the lower jaw and the top 
of the collar bone being deeper under the surface at 
the bottom of the neck. It is, however, desirable to 
make the incision as low in the neck as possible in order 
to avoid leaving the marks of it visible. Begin the 
incision on either side of the neck at a point half 
way between the thyroid cartilage (or Adam’s apple) 
and the top of the collar bone cutting downward. 
By reference to the plate illustrating the location and 
course of this artery you will note the place marked 
for the incision. The course of the Carotid Artery is 
in a line dra\Vn from the angle or bend of the collar 
bone where it joins the Sternum or breast bone, 
upwards towards the ear, and it is at the side of and 
almost touching the windpipe at the top of the collar 
bone, but receds backwards from the wind-pipe 
and comes nearer to the surface as it passes 
upwards. It is contained in a sheath which incloses 
also the internal jugular vein which lies close to and 
on the outer side of the artery. 

Having taken up the artery, make a slit or cut in 
it lengthwise about three eights ot an inch in length 
and insert the point of the syringe towards the body 
(never towards the head when you arc injecting into the 






See dotted line for place for making the incision. 





















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Carotid Artery ), securing the artery to the syringe 
point with strong thread; also tie the artery above the 
syringe point, that -nothing may run out from that 
end ot the slit. Now proceed to inject the Preserva¬ 
tive and continue to slowly force it into the artery as 
long as you can do so with moderate pressure of the 
syringe bulb, but discontinue when the veins in the 
forehead begin to show a slight distention. Then let 
it remain about two hours by which time the Capillary 
veins will have absorbed a portion of the Preservative 
already injected, when you will find it easy to inject 
about one-third as much more into the artery. 

For most cases one injection is sufficient, but to 
keep a body for months it is well to repeat the in¬ 
jection the second day or the third day, the Preserv¬ 
ative being largely absorbed by that time. After 
the injection is completed tie the artery below the 
point of the syringe securely, remove the syringe 
point, and sew up the cut. 



CHAPTER X. 

Directions for Locating and Injecting the 

Brachial Artery. 

The course of the Brachial Artery is in a line 
drawn from the outer side of the armpit to the 
center of the bend of the elbow, and along the inner 
edge ot the Biceps or largest muscle of the upper 
part of the arm (see illustration). This artery will 
be found just at the inner edge of the Biceps, at a 
point midway between the elbow and shoulder—some¬ 
times a little under the edge of the muscle in very 
muscular subjects. Hold the arm out from the side 
of the body, twisting it a little outwards, and make 
the incision at the edge of the muscle. By reference 
to the plate illustrating the location of this artery, 
you will see the point marked for the incision. Hav¬ 
ing taken up the artery, make the slit and secure 
the syringe in it, the point directed towards the 
shoulder, and proceed according to the general direc¬ 
tions already given for the Carotid Artery injection. 



Point for the incision. 


























Point for the incision. 



































































CHAPTER XI. 


Directions for Locating and Injecting the 

Femoral Artery. 

The course of the Femoral Artery is in a line 
drawn from the inner side of the knee upwards to a 
point midway between the outside of the hip-bone 
and inside of the thigh (see illustration). It is near¬ 
est the surface and is taken up and injected the most 
readily at a point about two inches below the lower 
edge or fold of the groin. By reference to the plate 
illustrating the course of this artery, the place for 
injection will be found marked. Having taken the 
artery up and made the slit, secure the syringe with 
the point directed upwards, t. e., towards the body, 
and proceed with the injection in the same manner as 
with the other arteries. The Femoral Artery is 
seldom used, however, the Brachial, and next to that 
the Carotid Artery, being usually preferred. 

All bodies should be laid out upon an inclined 
plane (45 degrees is not too much), particularly 
during the process of embalming, as by thus inclin¬ 
ing the body, the slight bloating of the face, caused 
by the filling of the arterial circulation with the 
Preservative, will soon pass off and a life-like ex¬ 
pression remain. * 


CHAPTER XII. 


Precautions to observe for the Safety of the 
Operator in Embalming. 

Should you cut or prick your hand or fingers in 
any way while handling the dead, be sure and apply 
the Preservative at once to the wound, as it will 
insure safety from the inoculation of the poison virus- 
by which many undertakers have lost their lives. I 
would also say to the undertaker, in every instance 
where he is called upon to lay out the dead, to first 
bathe his hands with the Preservative; this insures 
perfect safety and should never be omitted, for you 
can not tell at just what point you will meet with this- 
deadly virus; and as I have before stated, the Preserv¬ 
ative in this respect is positively indispensable to the 
undertaker. 

I have already spoken in the highest praise of the 
Excelsior Preservative, but the half has not been told. 
The undertaker who places any estimate on the value 
of his own life, can not afford to be without this all 
important antidote against the dangerous inoculation 
of the poison or deadly virus which he is liable to 
encounter at any moment in handling the dead. 

It is a very dangerous thing in any contingency to 
handle the dead, notwithstanding it has been done 
thousands of times without injury to the undertaker, 
yet this is due to great precaution on his part, or from 
the fact of his hands being in perfect condition, hav- 


mg no scratch, cracks, hang-nails, or abrasion of the 
skin through which the poison could be inoculated 
into his system, whereas, others with a simple scratch 
or hang-nail that they were not aware of until too 
late, have thus been poisoned and lost their lives. 

Cases of purging or sloughing of the skin are of 
the worst type, these juices being fearfully 
poisonous, and the longer the body lays without 
treatment the worse it grows, hence the more dan¬ 
gerous to handle; therefore I say, it matters not what 
the undertaker charges for his services, he is never 
half paid for the risk he runs of losing his own life 
while fulfilling the duties of his profession in handling 
and taking care of the dead. 

There is no public servant that takes upon himself 
one-half the personal risk, or whose services should 
be better appreciated by the community than those 
of the professional undertaker, and when the customer 
complains of prices, or where the undertaker’s charges 
are brought in question, these facts should be fully 
explained. 

A fatal case happened under my own personal 
observation in California where the undertaker laid 
out a Chinaman that was purging at the mouth. 
Some of the poisonous fluid got into a hang-nail, and 
in three days he died, although a council of physicians 
was called, but nothing devised or prescribed could 
help him, simply for the want of a perfect antidote 
like the Excelsior Preservative, which, if applied, as 
directed in this manual, is a certain preventative 
against the deadly ravages of this virus. And I 
will once more say to the undertaker, you must be on 
your guard at all times , and as self-preservation is 


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paramount to all other considerations in matters of 
this kind, be sure to bathe your hands in the 
Preservative before commencing to handle or lay out 
the dead, and also bathing them with it thoroughly 
immediately afterwards. 


CHAPTEP XIII. 

Chemical Affinities. 

I will here give a few of the reasons why the 
Excelsior Preservative will do all that I represent. 

To those who are acquainted with chemical laws, 
hardly any discovery seems too strange to be true. 
Chemical laws and their affinities are truly wonderful, 
and if we are to produce a certain result on the dead 
human system, we must make use of chemicals that 
have affinities for the parts to be acted upon, and no 
affinity whatever for those parts that we desire to 
leave intact or undisturbed. 

Careful study and experience have taught me that 
albumen and gluten are the principal if not the only 
putrescible substances with which we have to deal in 
the preservation of the dead. 

Putrescent gases and odors which originate from 
the decomposition of those substances, partake large¬ 
ly of their nature, and even carry with them minute 
atoms of the corrupted mass into the air we breathe, 
and it matters not whether this putrid and offensive 
matter exist in the air or flesh, where the Excelsior 



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Preservative comes in contact with it the air is at 
once cleansed and rendered wholesome, or the flesh 
preserved. My Preservative is made from chemicals 
that act directly upon the albumen and gluten, unit¬ 
ing with them to form a new compound, and the 
compound so formed becomes a new substance, and 
this has an affinity for the hitherto unaffected con¬ 
stituency of the flesh, which all combine to form a 
new, pure, and imputrescible whole; by this means 
changing the corruptible mass into a 'perfectly preserved 
body for all time. The Excelsior Preservative being 
infintely superior and paramount to all other prepara¬ 
tions known to man in either ancient or modern times 
for the preservation of the human body in its natural 
and life-like appearance. 



CHAPTER XIV. 


Advantages to the Undertaker of Scientific 

Embalming. 

With the aid of this Manual, the enterprising 
Undertaker will soon find himself master of the 
situation, and no case, however complicated or ob¬ 
stinate, will be able to baffle his skill, and as there is 
not a town or city in the land in which there is not 
an occasional death of some person whose remains 
are removed to a distant place for interment, and as 
a great many of Undertakers are not skilled in the 
art of partial or full embalming, many such cases are 
of necessity either sent in a putrid state or shipped 
in an ice-box, to the very great annoyance and incon¬ 
venience of the friends of the deceased, when if the 
local Undertaker had been properly skilled in the 
preservation and embalming of the dead, the friends 
could have been gratified by not only having a 
proper funeral at its destination, but they would 
have had the satisfaction of the remains presenting 
a perfect and life-like appearance. The Undertaker 
who will give this part of the profession a little care¬ 
ful study and attention, will find that nothing will 
pay him better, for as soon as the people find out 
that he is really a professional undertaker, they will 
gladly rely upon him, and his services will be more 
and more appreciated by the educated and refined 
portion of the people, who always want this class of 


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work well done, and are willing to pay and do pay 
for it whenever the Undertaker can convince them 
that he really understands the requirements of his 
profession. 

I have been told hundreds of times, by persons 
who have lost relatives or friends, that they would 
have given $50, $100 or $200, or even $300, if they 
could only have had them preserved or embalmed for 
even two or three weeks, and much more if they 
could have had them fully embalmed. Therefore I 
say that there is nothing that can possibly pay the 
Undertaker better than to educate himself up to a full 
knowledge of the requirements of his profession, and 
it certainly is a very great inducement for him to 
do so when it is so easily done with the aid of the 
Excelsior Preservative and the instructions which I 
have laid before you. 



CHAPTER XV. 


Absorption by the Capillaries. 

It is a well established fact that the capillaries or 
pores of the skin absorb liquids and many substances 
when in solution, as well as being channels of excre¬ 
tion of waste matter from the system. 

“Draper’s Human Physiology” (a standard 
authority) says, page 241: “ Besides exercising the 
functions of exhalation and perspiration, numerous 
facts demonstrate that the skin exerts an absorbent 
action. The endermic application of remedial agents 
establishes this in a satisfactory manner. That water 
can find access in this way is shown by the assuaging 
of the thirst which may occur on taking a bath; nor 
is the amount insignificant, since it may give rise to 
a considerable increase of weight.” 

Salivation may be procured by the external appli¬ 
cation of mercurial preparations, the peculiar consti¬ 
tutional effects of cantharides (Spanish flies) on the 
urinary organs may occur from their external contact 
with the skin, and a multitude of such instances can 
be adduced to show the tendency to absorption 
through the pores of the skin. 

Prom the above established facts, the risk in 
using poisonous substances for embalming purposes— 
more particularly solutions of arsenic—is greater than 
is generally realized. This deadly poison (arsenic) is 
so peculiarly diffusive and peaetrating that it is even 


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injurious to sleep in rooms papered with green wall¬ 
paper, the green coloring matter used in printing 
such colors on wall-paper being an arsenical prepa¬ 
ration. 

Contact of the naked skin with any arsenical 
solution is attended with risk in exact proportion to 
the extent and duration of such contact, the thick¬ 
ness of the skin, and some other modifications, as, for 
instance, this deadly poison (arsenic) will be absorbed 
more readily through the pores of the back of the 
hand than through the calloused palm, much more 
readily through the epithelial covering of the lips 
than other better protected parts of the body, and 
even if the Embalmer is careless of the consequences 
to himself from using such dangerous material for 
his work, he is in duty bound to take into consider¬ 
ation when using embalming preparations that the 
friends and relatives often take a parting kiss from 
the face of their dead after the application of such 
preparations, and he should use none that contain 
any such dangerous ingredients. 

All such risks, both to the Embalmer himself and 
to all who come into contact in any manner with the 
dead, arc entirely avoided when using the Excelsior 
Preservative. It is a perfect antidote, not only for 
septic poisoning from contact with infectious matter 
in handling dead bodies, but also a sure antidote to 
the dangerous effects arising from the use of any 
poisonous solutions that may be used for embalming 
purposes; and if for any reason such are used, or if 
there is any suspicion of danger of being inoculated 
with poisonous matter, I would urge for your own 


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safety and protection that you freely use the Preserv¬ 
ative, bathing your hands or any part that may be 
exposed to contact with the poison, as the free appli¬ 
cation of the Preservative will neutralize and destroy 
the poisonous matter and prevent any unpleasant or 
serious consequences. 

The Preservative is not only perfectly harmless in 
its external contact with living flesh, but it is even 
remarkably curative in its effects when applied to 
chapped hands, sores, or even fresh cuts. This is, as a 
matter of course, outside of its legitimate use as an 
Embalming preparation, and 1 refer to it only as 
indicating the radical difference between the arsenical 
and other poisonous solutions (the so-called “fluids") 
and the Excelsior Preservative, which last contains 
no such dangerous ingredients. 



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CIIAPTEK XVI. 


Embalming Instruments. 

Much can be accomplished in restoring and 
retaining the natural appearance and color of the 
exposed portions of a dead body, and decomposition 
can be retarded for a time by using the Preservative 
freely externaly and without the aid of instruments, 
wetting clothes with it and applying to the face, neck, 
and hands to restore and retain their natural color, 
and also over the bowels where decomposition first sets 
in, which application will delay its progress for a 
time, as the Preservative is very penetrating, but a 
good set of Embalming instruments are almost 
indispensable for every undertaker to be possessed of, 
as there will often be cases where there is a necessity 
for cavity injection to hold the body a number of days 
for the arrival of distant friends, and occasionaly for 
Arterial Embalming for shipment to long distances. 

It would be out of place for us to advertise our 
Instruments in a work of this kind, and we would 
simply say that we invite correspondence in regard 
to Instruments desirable for use. We would prefer 
to supply our customers with a good set of Instru¬ 
ments at a nominal price to cover the cost of 
manufacture rather than to have them remain without 
them or be using inferior-ones, as the best results in 
Embalming are attained only with the best tools 
which rule holds good in every kind of work. 


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We have on hand Instruments of every description 
for every kind of Embalming work, from sets con¬ 
sisting of those used only for partial embalming, up 
to complete sets in elegant Cabinets with every tool 
required for any purpose. Our syringe has a screw 
fitting turned on the suction end so that any of the 
tubes or the Gas-trocar can be fitted on and collect¬ 
ions of fluid in the body pumped out with it. 

All the tubes and the Gas-trocar are nickel plated 
and non-corrosive, and we would call especial 
attention to our improved Gas-trocar which is the 
most complete tool of its kind ever manufactured 
being superior to any other as it is so constructed that 
it will not clog. 

Sets of Instruments will be sent to our customers 
on approval if desired. 




CHAPTER XYII. 


Caution to be used in Storing and Keeping 

the Preservative. 

It is of the greatest importantce that the Pre¬ 
servative be kept entirely free from mixture with any 
other substance, as, owing to the peculiar combination 
of the chemicals used in the process of its manufacture, 
an addition of even a small portion of any foreign 
substances, especialy any of the Arsenical Solutions 
sometimes used for embalming purposes, will com- 
pletly change its character and destroy some of its 
most valuable properties. 

We call particular attention to this matter as we 
have more than once traced up the cause for a com¬ 
plaint of the quality of some particular shipment of 
the Preservative to the fact that the customer has 
had one or more kinds of “fluid” on hand and in some 
careless moment has emptied back some little left 
over, into the package containing our Preservative to 
its very great injury. Even keeping the Preserva¬ 
tive in wood totally destroys its efficiency as an Em¬ 
balming preparation and therefore it should never 
under contingency be kept in wooden packages. It 
should always be kept in the glass packages in which 
-it is shipped, or in some other glass vessel. 

Every package that is sent out is exactly like 
every other package in regard to the quality of the 
Preservative it contains, and its contents will never 
deterioate in any length of time it may be kept- 
providing that no other substance be added. 


APPENDIX. 


To our Customers : 

We have appended to the foregoing treatise on 
Embalming some few of the letters we are constantly 
receiving from our customers, giving their unbiassed 
opinion of the merits of the Excelsior Preservative, 
entirely unsolicited-on our part and without the least 
idea of publication on the part of the writers. 

To such of our good friends and customers who 
find such an expression from themselves printed in 
this hook, we ask pardon for the publicity given to 
their letters, trusting that the good company in which 
they will find themselves, among the leading members 
of their profession, will be our best excuse for the 
liberty we have ventured to take. 

Want of space prevents us from printing but a 
very small portion of the thousands of commenda¬ 
tory letters we have in our hands, and for the same 
reason we print only such portions of the letters as 
will fairly give the opinions of the writers thereof. 

Respectfully yours, 

CRANE & ALLEN. 



Commendatory Letters and Extracts. 


New York City, Jan. 21,1880. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please duplicate the last bill of your Preservative 
sent to us—56 gallons I think. It has given us great 
satisfaction. STEPHEN MERRITT. 

And again April 30, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us as soon as possible one hundred gal¬ 
lons of your Preservative. Let one carboy come by 
express at once. The Preservative gives perfect satisfact¬ 
ion. STEPHEN MEREITT. 


Newton, Kansas., Aug. 3, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

If you will please to duplicate the invoice of May 11th. 
(13 gallons) you may do so at your earliest convenience. 
We like the Preservative very much and will use no other 
as long as we can get as good from you. 

EDWARDS & CORLETT. 


Cortland, N. Y., March 9, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have just commenced on the last two carboys you 
sent us. We listened to outside parties and let them un¬ 
load 20 gallons of “Fluid” upon us that might answer for 
winter use. We have now done with experimenting and 
hereafter you may count on our sticking to the “C. & A.” 
Preservative. EDGCOMB & BALLARD. 





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Clinton, Mass., April 10,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We like your Preservative, knowing just what it will 
do, and have got all over experimenting w r ith other pre¬ 
parations. Will let you know in ample season for another 
supply. LUCIUS, FIELD & CO. 


St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 22, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative better than any other, as it 
removes discoloration quicker and don’t stain clothing 
and I think it is much better in every particular. 

JOS. P. MURRELL, 

1322 & 1324 Market St. 


Lowell, Mass., May 15,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with your Preservative, have got 
some other kinds also, but I like yours best. I find 
some difficulty sometimes in using fluid in place of ice, 
as some want ice anyway, but I have the best success 
with the Preservative. 

J. H. MCDERMOTT. 


M Lean, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I must say that your Preservative is the only Em¬ 
balming fluid that “fills the bill” in every respect. 

A. A. McKEE. 


Rockford, Ill., May 31, 1985. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using some other kinds for some time 
past, but I like your Preservative much the best. 

H. E. MARSH. 






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Chicago, July 12, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I had a funeral yesterday in a family which had a 
funeral about a year ago. They said the undertaker then 
used a preparation which was so poisonous that a daugh¬ 
ter of the deceased was laid up, confined to her bed six 
weeks as a result, and has never fully recovered. This 
not from having drank or tasted the chemical, but simply 
from having made the applications of dampened clothes 
to the face, etc. They did not at first know what was the 
matter, but the doctors found arsenic in the raisings from 
the stomach,* the result of inhalation and absorption. 
This undertaker, by the way, does not use your Preserva¬ 
tive. S. C. POSTLEWAIT. 


Ottawa, Ill., Sept. 22,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are not in need of fluid just now, but when we are 
will send you an order. We consider your Preservative 
the best Fluid in the market. 

PETER RUSSELL & SON. 


Warsaw, N. Y., June 11, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using other preparations, and having 
been in former years a druggist, have made and used 
largely my own preparations for embalming, but there 
are many things about your Preservative I like better 
than others used, and 1 intend to keep it in stock and 
use it. A. B. LAWRENCE. 


Coatesville, Pa., April 10, 1883. 

Cra^e & Allen: 

Refill and return carboy with your Preservative at 
once. It is the best embalming preparation that I ever 
used, and I feel safer with it than anything else of the 
kind. E. S. LANDIS. 





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Lake City, Minn., June 30, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed is draft on Chicago for amount of your bill. 
We have tried your Preservative and like it very much. 

LAKE CITY FURNITURE CO. 


Marengo, Ills., May 3, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

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What I have used of the Preservative has given the 
best of satisfaction. 1 do not think I shall need any 
more very soon, but I shall order of you, as I think it 
cannot be beat. GEO. E. DIGGINS. 


Charlestown District, ) 

Boston, Mass., Nov. 15, 1886. ] 

Crane & Allen: 

I am very much pleased with the Preservative, and it 
has not only done its work well on ordinary cases, but on 
very difficult ones in the severest of hot weather. 

CHARLES L. PERRY. 


Nebraska City, Neb., March 24, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send five gallons of the Preservative. Am offered 
Fluid very cheap, but prefer the Preservative, as I am 
always sure of getting a good article. 1 just had a case 
where I restored the color from black to marble white 
with it. C. N. KARSTENS. 


Wellston, O., March 3,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am glad to say that your Preservative has never 
failed to do its work yet. I have been using it for nearly 
five years and in some very bad cases 

C. M. RICHARDS. 






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Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 12,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your-Preservative gives full satisfaction. I enclose 
draft for last bill. J. L. LYONS. 


Leading, Penn., April 5, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

The people in this locality are prejudiced against em¬ 
balming and I have had -hard work to introduce it, but 
they begin to see it now differently. As an illustration, I 
will give you a case I had last season: A lady died and 
some of the family were in Florida, and they wished the 
body kept until their return. I embalmed the body with 
your Preservative and after it had laid in the house a 
week the neighbors began to make a fuss, and threatened 
to complain to the Board of Health, and annoyed the fam¬ 
ily so that they requested me to remove the body to my 
house; I did so, keeping it in the casket and kept it two 
weeks longer. When the friends arrived the body was 
shipped then 150 miles and buried, and it was in much 
better condition when buried than the day she died—no 
smell or signs of decay whatever. E. S. MILLER. 


Chicago, July 16, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed is money order for last bill of your Preserv¬ 
ative. I am well satisfied with it and shall order more in 
a week or two. OSCAR ME1STER, 

845 Milwaukee Avenue. 

And again, Dec. 12, 1885: 

Crane & Allen: 

Although I can buy Fluid here for less than your 
Preservative, I would rather give you more for yours. 

OSCAR MEISTER. 




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Sandwich, Ill., May 4, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed find draft for 836.00 for bill of Sept. 7, ’86, 
and send us at once 12 gallons of Preservative. We are 
well pleased with it. J. BUCKHART & SON. 


Hope, Ind., Sept. 26,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have given the Preservative a fair trial and have 
found it to surpass any fluid that we have ever purchased. 
Please fill demijohn and return to us, 

COHEE & SPAUGII. 

And again, Jan. 16,1886: 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us six gallons more of the Preservative. 
It is the best Fluid we can get. 

COHEE & SPAUGH. 


Natchez, Miss., July 14,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used your Preservative with great success and 
it has a grand reputation here. In one case I was not 
called upon to embalm until 48 hours after death, and the 
face and neck was black, yet it was kept five days in J uly 
and every one wanted to know how I managed to keep 
the body so well. R. H. STEWART. 


Gilman, Ill., Feb. 4,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I acknowledge the receipt of the demijohn of the 
Preservative, and should have ordered sooner, but last 
spring I bought out an Undertaker’s stock in Onarga with 
a quantity of “ Embalming Fluid,” which supplied me for 
a time, but I like yours the best of any that I have used 
and shall in the future depend upon yours altogether 
when I can get it. W. P. GARDNER.. 





Trenton, N. J., Aug. 9,1887. 


Crane & Allen: 

Ship 20 gallons of Preservative by freight. I shall 
use more of it hereafter as I most assuredly like it. 

BENJ. L. DISBROW. 


Note.—T he three following letters from N. Green- 
lund, of Warren, Pa., should be read in connection with 
each other: 


Warren, Pa., July 23, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed please find check for $15.00, for last bill. 
You need not send any at present. Have no fault to find 
w T ith your Preservative, has given good satisfaction, but 
have got some now that seems to do the work and for 
less money. N. GREENLUND. 

And again on August 28,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Having lately been induced to buy some “Fluid” for 
less money than yours with guarantee “to be as good as 
yours”—maybe it is, but it does not give me the same 
satisfaction, therefore please send me a demijohn of the 
Excelsior Preservative and oblige, 

N. GREENLUND. 


And again on Sept. 12,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is received and commenced to use 
it, and will say in the language of some other undertaker’s 
when in convention some time since: “It is hard to keep 
house without'Crane & Allen’s Fluid.” 

N. GREENLUND, 



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Ripon, Wis., Aug. 21, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We enclose draft for am’t of last bill. We think 
your Preservative after a test of five years that we have 
given it, the best that we have ever used. It never .fails 
to do the work. DELANO & COOLEY. 


McKenzie, Tenn., June 12, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is all you claim it to be, and I am 
satisfied it will do all you claim for it, and that it will do 
to rely upon for Embalming. E. DINNING. 


Middlebury, Vt., May 20, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are still using the Preservative entirely and are 
very much pleased with it indeed and consider it perfect. 
We had a very hard case in a town 10 miles from here, of 
a man who died in almost perfect health, very fleshy, 
weight over 400 lbs. We were not called until he had been 
dead 12 hours and then we found him improperly laid out, 
but in spite of it all, we kept him a week by the use of 
the Preservative, and had a very large funeral (he being 
a very prominent man). The casket stood open and every 
one said it was the most life-like corpse they ever saw. 

BREWSTER & CO. 


West Chester, O., Dec. 19,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I wish to thank you for the Preservative, as it has 
done all and more than you claimed for it. Our doctor 
used some of it and says he never saw anything to equal 
it for blood poisoning. Enclosed $15.00; give me credit 
for it. F. M. LONG. 





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Westfield, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed find draft for your bill. I have not used all 
of the Preservative yet, but have used many kinds and 
have no hesitation in saying that yours is the best. Shall 
use no other in future. SAM’L. C. CRANDELL. 


Bryan, Ohio., May 26,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have great faith in your Preservative and will al¬ 
ways guarantee that I can hold a body in good shape by 
the use of it. A. C. DILLMAN. 


Oregon, Wis., Oct. 28,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have now used your Preservative so long that we 
are satisfied. We have had such good results from it that 
it is best to continue its use. It is a great advantage to 
the Undertaker where the body is to be kept an exceed¬ 
ingly long time, to have something to rely upon, and we 
have always had good success with the Preservative. 

LINDSAY & WACKMAN. 


West Milton, O., May 25, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I had a good chance to test your Preservative. A 
woman died in another Undertaker’s territory, seven 
miles from here, and was put into an ice box with 250 or 
300 lbs. of ice, and with all that the body got black and 
swollen, and people became alarmed and wanted to bury 
her at once, but the friends objected and sent for me. I 
took her out of the ice box, let off the gas and used your 
Preservative, and at the funeral she looked as natural as 
life. I could refer you to several other cases, but I 
suppose it is not necessary. JACOB MILLER. 





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Cairo, Ills., Oct. 29,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I was not out when I wrote to you for the price in 
large quantities. Am using it a good deal and think it 
can’t be beat. N. FEITH. 


Cortland, 1ST. Y., Sept. 4, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have begun to use your Preservative and think it is 
better than anything I have ever used. I had on hand 10 
gallons of another kind when yours came, which is the 
reason why I had not used yours before. You will hear 
from me again soon. R. B. FLETCHER. 


Pottstown, Penn., May 20,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I send two empties, which you can fill with your 
Preservative and return to me. I have used no ice since 
using the Preservative, and have kept all kind of cases 
good. JAMES M. FILLMEN. 


Austin, Minn., Jan. 11,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have bought “Fluid” from other parties lately, as 
Mr. Fernald was away and I did not know at first w T here 
to order. Mr. F. has since spoken very highly of your 
Preservative, and we will give you the next order. 

FERNALD & CO. 


Moundsville, W. Va., Nov. 9,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative very well. It does the work 
well, and I have given it a pretty good trial and am well 
satisfied that it is all you claim it to be. 

P. L. LOGAN. 






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Freeport, Ills., Mar. 31, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are well pleased with the Preservative, and you 
can refer any of your customers to us. 

D. KUEHNER. 


Montpelier, Oct. 27,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I would as soon be without coffins as to be without 
your Preservative. 1 have tried a number of kinds, but 
none equals yours. N. G. LASH. 


Mt. Sterling, Ivy., May 4, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given satisfaction, and we will 
send you an order for more this season. 

JNO. LINDSEY & SON. 


Fargo, Dakota, Dec. 12, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best thing of the kind we 
have ever used. LUGER FURNITURE CO. 


Plainfield, lnd., Jan. 24, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

You will find enclosed draft for $21.00. Am not en¬ 
tirely out, but you may send me another carboy of the 
Preservative. I had a case last summer that proved the 
excellency of your fluid. The man died of lung fever and 
heart disease combined, and in about five or six hours 
after death he turned purple all over the body, not unlike 
a flesh blood-blister. I injected about half of a gallon of 
the Preservative into the Brachial Artery, and in less 
than 24 hours the discoloration had disappeared, and at 
the day of the funeral some of the friends wanted to put 
it off on account of his life-like appearance. 

SEBASTIAN HISS. 






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Mt. Blanchard, O., June 2, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have never had a failure in the use of your Pre¬ 
servative, and have had a good many bad cases to handle* 
We kept one subject with it from Oct. 29th to the 1st 
of April following. J. W r . PICKETT & CO. 


Webster City, Iowa, Aug. 17, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed find draft for bill. Your Preservative is 
first-class; none better in the world. 

J. W. ALLINGTON. 


Joliet, Ills, May 22, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We return pkges. for refilling with the Preservative. 
We can buy what are considered “ standard makes of 
Fluid ” for about one-tliird less, but we have given yours 
the preference, as its workings have been so very satis¬ 
factory. S. S. CHAMBERLIN & SON. 


Hamilton, Ohio, Oct. 21, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us carboy of your Preservative right 
away, as we like it very well. J. CROWLEY & SON. 

And again, July 1, 1885:— 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is giving us perfect satisfaction. 

J. CROWLEY & SON. 


Edgerton, Wis., June 1,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I shall use no other kind of Embalming Fluid but 
yours, as it gives the best of satisfaction. 

W. II. CLARKE. 






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Frankfort, IncL April 25, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are vary muck pleased with the Preservative, and 
we give you an order for ten gallons of it, which please 
ship at once. COMLEY & BIRD. 


Galesburg, Mich., Feb. 3, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

1 have had a good opportunity to find out what fluid 
would stand the weather lately. I had some of two kinds, 
of what is called “Standard” makes of fluid by the side of 
some of your Preservative and all in bottles, and all froze 
and broke the bottles but Crane & Allens, and that did 
not. I shall use only yours hereafter. 

HENRY LABB1TT. 


East Liverpool, Ohio, Aug. 25, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best 1 ever used. I tell you 
I have done some nice work with it. Will use no other if 
I can get yours. J. W. ALBRIGHT. 


Chicago, June 25, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed please find New York draft to apply on 
account. We think your Preservative is the best we 
have ever used. FRED H. RUSS & CO. 


Baltimore, Md., Jan. 26,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative and have recommended it to 
other Undertakers in this city. It will never fail any 
one using it right, and it will take the lead if you keep it 
up to the present standard. JOHN LAKE. 






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Jamestown, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed find check ($74.70) in settlement of account 
to date as per statement, and you may duplicate the last 
shipment. We do not hesitate to say that we are more 
than pleased with your Preservative, and it gives better 
satisfaction than any we ever used of any other make. 

PARTRIDGE & VanDUSEN. 

And again, on Feb. 11,1886:— 

Crane & Allen: 

We are more than pleased with the results from the 
use of your Preservative, and wonder why so many use 
other preparations that we have tried and know do not 
equal yours. PARTRIDGE & VanDUSEN. 


Coal Center, Pa., May 29, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been offered “Fluid” that is called good for less 
than yours cost, but I have tried already several kinds of 
such and none give satisfaction equal to yours, the coldest 
weather last winter had no effect on it. 

GEO. J. LONG. 


Eau Claire, Wis., Oct. 19,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me a carboy of the Excelsior Preservative. It 
is the best I ever used and is just splendid. 

J. A. LAWLER. 


Circleville, Ohio., Aug. 20,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We think a great deal of your Preservative and have 
had splendid success with it, in fact we have “been raised 
on” Crane & Allen’s Preservative. 

ALBAUGII & LANUM. 





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Hudson, Wis., Aug. 18,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We lately had a case that we considered a test of your 
Preservative. It was a case of death by accident, body 
mutilated. We shipped it and it arrived in good condi¬ 
tion. We like the Preservative better every time we use 
it. T. BEARD & CO. 


Chebanse, Ill., Sept. 21,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have had some severe cases lately. One a lady who 
died of an abdominal tumor from which over a wooden 
pail full of fetid matter was taken; the body was badly 
swollen and very offensive, the whole house tainted. At 
the time of the funeral the rooms and the body were per¬ 
fectly sweet. Another case of a man killed by lightning, 
and it took four hours to work off the gasses and do the 
work; and another case of a child which was kept a week 
during the hottest weather of last month (August). I am 
very well pleased with the results from using your Pre¬ 
servative in all of the above cases and will order more of 
it. S. S. BAKER. 


Streator, Ill., Nov. 7,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is working splendidly. 

II. F. HOWLAND. 

And again June 8, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is a No. 1. article and I have given 
it some extra good tests. H. F. HOWLAND. 


Dansville, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative works to perfection and 1 believe I 
could keep a body as long as I had a mind to with it. 

GEO. R. HURLBURT. 





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Groton, N. Y., June 12, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is all right, and we shall want 
more of it. We have used others some of the time, but 
yours does the best work. J. I. BOOTH & SON. 


Jamesport, Mo., Dec. 26, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send me another shipment of your Preserva¬ 
tive. I could not do without it now, as I find it superior 
to anything I have seen. A, B. BUREN. 


Oskaloosa, Iowa., Oct. 15,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I dare not use some of the “fluids,” once having lost 
four finger nails in using one kind, and others harden the 
skin and benumbs the fingers so that the touch is not as 
delicate as desired. I will now stick by your Preservative 
as it is just as nice for the undertakers hands as can be, 
softens and cleanses so nicely that it is a pleasure to use 
it and it has never failed us in embalming. I like it again 
from the fact that when a gallon of it is injected into the 
arteries the face and other surfaces are whitened which 
others I have tried does not do, therefore the frieds can 
better see the effect of your work. 

J. B. McCURDY. 

And again on June 14, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I ordered 10 gallons of “fluid” because the party of 
whom I ordered was such a nice “demonstrator” and al¬ 
though I gave my hands only one light wash of it; it was 
bidding fair to be as bad for them as ever any of the 
“fluids” were, and I will use it up with gloves, but gentle¬ 
men, I find on account of my hands and the satisfaction 
that the C. & A. Preservative gives me, that I will have 
no other, when through with the 10 gallons referred to. 

J. B. McCURDY. 




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Thomaston, Conn., Jan. 14, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I shall want more of your Preservative on the ap¬ 
proach of warm weather as I like it very much, shall not 
need any before April or May. 

R. T. ANDREWS. 


Lisbon, Iowa, Aug. 8, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send another pkge. of the Preservative. Am 
not quite out and don’t want to be. It does just what 
you claim for it, and is the best preparation I ever used, 

H. BUCHER. 


DuBois, Penn., Feb. 10, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given splendid satisfaction 
and I have had the best kind of success with it, and I have 
no trouble in keeping a body any length of time with it. 

A. L. HOY. 


Canaseraga, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send some more of the Preservative to me at this 
place, where I have removed to from Dansville. Your 
Preservative works like a charm. 

GEO. R. IIURLBURT. 


Janesville, Wis., Sept. 19,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

The instruments are received, and are just what we 
wanted and are even nicer than I expected. 1 can assure 
you that no other “Fluid” but Crane & Allen’s Preserva¬ 
tive will ever fill an artery that they open while I handle 
them. We like the Preservative very much. 

JANESVILLE FURNITURE CO. 






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Wheeling, West Va., March 14, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have sold out my undertaking business, but I shall 
take pleasure in recommending your Preservative to 
anyone, as I know what it is, and you may refer anyone 
to me if you want to. ROBERT LUKE. 


Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 22,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

An Undertaker came over to see me from Newbury- 
port yesterday, to ascertain how I managed to keep bodies 
so nice that were under my care. He being an Under¬ 
taker of some note, I took some pride in letting him see 
me embalm a body with your Preservative, and he was so 
well pleased that he will order some of you at once. 

JOHN LLOYI). 


Wooster, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used other Fluids in the same way as yours, 
and for arterial embalming I prefer your Preservative. 
Have used about 30 gallons since June last. 

D. Y. LANDIS. 


Fair Haven, May 21, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me a pkge. of the Preservative. I can buy 
‘‘Fluids” cheaper, but I know yours is good and don’t 
want to take chances on something that might go back 
on me. GEO. C. LYON. 


Wadsworth, O., Jan. 18, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We had considerable of other Fluids on hand when 
we got your Preservative, and have some yet. We like 
yours the best, and won’t use any other after this. 

KREMER & OPLINGER. 






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Wheaton, Ills., Aug. 29, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I return carboy, which please fill with the Preserva¬ 
tive and return to me. It has given first-class satisfaction 
and I am well pleased with it. CONRAD KAMPP. 


Malvern, Ohio, June 23,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

T have not had occasion to open the last pkge. of the 
Preservative, as there is but little embalming to do here 
just now, unless I should attempt to preserve the earth, 
which I think your Preservative would do. 

GEO. DECKMAN. 


Binghamton, N. Y., June 5,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have sold out my business to D. G. Mulford & Co., 
and have urged them to use your Preservative as being 
the best there is. They think it is rather expensive, but 
I tell them that it is cheaper than any, considering the 
work it will do. You write them, and I think they will 
try it. J. S. FREAR. 


Bonaparte, Iowa, Dec. 14,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using your Preservative for some time, 
and prefer it to any other kind of Embalming Fluid. It 
gives perfect satisfaction. GEO. A. DEMPLE. 


Morris, Ills., June 20, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have been trying other kinds of “ Fluid ” lately, 
but find your Preservative to be the best. We have thor¬ 
oughly demonstrated that the Preservative will give 
better satisfaction in all cases than any kind yet made. 

DAVIS BROS. 




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Mt. Vernon, O., Aug. 27, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have decided never to use any “Fluid” but yours. 
It is the best we ever saw. About a month ago we gave 
it a good test, and kept a man who died very sudden— 
weighed 225 lbs. We kept him five days in his parlor, 
and he looked better than he did the day he died. We 
then placed him in the vault and ten days afterwards we 
took his wife and family to see him, and he looked as well 
as ever. It was the largest funeral we have had in 20 
years, in this city. We now know just what to count 
upon to keep a corpse, and that is Crane & Allen’s Pre¬ 
servative. J. II. McCORMICK & SON. 

And again, Jan. 4, 1888: 

Crane & Allen: 

We enter the New Year without any of your Preserv¬ 
ative, and as we feel as though we could not prosper in 
our business without it, please send us ten gallons. We 
have a little cheap stuff that was forced upon us, which 
we might get along with if it keeps cold, but you may 
send us ten gallons of the Preservative. 

J. H. McCORMICK & SON. 


Northfield, Vt., Feb. 6, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I must say of your Preservative that it is the best for 
removing discoloration that I have ever used, and the 
best for deodorizing a room. You may send me another 
carboy of it if you please. J. L. ABBOTT. 


Hartford, Conn., Jan. 12, 1882. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is first-class and we like it very 
much, and as soon as we want to buy any more Fluid we 
will send you an order. KENNEY & DILLON. 




Covington, Ky., May 10,1886. 


Crane & Allen: 

Send me about 15 gallons of the Preservative and 
don’t delay as I am out and don’t want to use any other. 

CHAS. DONNELLY & CO. 


Marengo, Ills., Sept. 9, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed draft to balance account. I have sold out 
to Geo. E. Diggins, who will return pkgs. with an order. 
I could give you a strong recommend, not only from my¬ 
self but from J. W. Caseby, Undertaker for many years. 
Xhe last job he had without your Preservative has con¬ 
vinced us of the great merits of it over others. 

J. T. BELDEX. 


Bryan, Ohio., June 5, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is giving me entire satisfaction. I 
had a body shipped to me from Columbus, which had all 
the appearance of having been in an ice-box for a time, 
then hastily jammed into a casket and shipped—the 
abdomen being fearfully swollen. I kept the body over 
two days, by drawing off the gas and filling the abdomen 
and lungs with the Preservative, and from all appearances 
it would have been all right for some time to come. 

A. C. DILLMAX. 


Lexington, Ky., Oct. 12, 1893. 

Crane & Allen: 

When at our convention in Cincinnati, in June, the 
representatives of one of the so-called “Standard Fluids” 
wanted me to take a gallon of it free, on trial, but I am 
satisfied with your Preservative. T. J. DAXAHY. 





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Anamosa, Iowa., March 31, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We enclose draft which you can give us credit for. 
Would say that your Preservative is the stuff: to tie to. 

DUNKLEE & EASTERLY. 

And again, March 26, 1887: 

Rest assured that we have no occasion to try any 
fluid other than yours, as it has never disappointed us and 
so long as it remains as it is we have no thought of chang¬ 
ing. DUNKLEE & EASTERLY. 


Philadelphia, April 14, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I still have some of your Preservative on hand but 
had it not been for some so-called first-class funeral direct¬ 
ors using very inferior preparations (presumably because 
cheaper) and thereby losing their cases and thus putting 
a temporary “black eye” on embalming, I would have 
used that all up and considerable more. You may rest 
assured that when I want anything of the kind I will 
order of you. GEO. CHANDLER PAUL. 


Greenfield, Ind., Aug. 5, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Excelsior Preservative is the best embalming 
fluid in America. It has always done just what we 
wanted it to do. J. P. JAMES & CO. 


Salem, Ohio., July 7, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

While other parties are offering “fluids” at a much 
reduced price, we do not want to buy elsewhere as long as 
you still continue to furnish us as good a fluid as your 
Preservative has proved to be, as it has never failed to do 
just what a fluid should do. R. & W. M. HOLE. 




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Sunbury, Ohio., June 21,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have some of your Preservative yet and we do not 
use very much at this time of the year. I do not use it in 
all cases as I have some that cost much less which I use 
some, but when I have a bad case on hand 1 always use 
the Excelsior Preservative, and I can recommend it to the 
profession as always giving satisfactory results. 

I. M. PRICE. 


Braidwood, Ill., Nov. 14,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative you send us has given good satis¬ 
faction and we are well pleased with it. It has done all 
you claim for it and we shall continue to handle it in 
preference to all others as it is a pleasure to use some¬ 
thing you can depend upon and that is the Crane & Allen 
Preservative. A. & J. W. PATTERSON. 


Denver, Nov. 10,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative we can say is all that you recom¬ 
mend it to be. We had the care of the body of a young 
man who committed suicide by hanging and when we 
took the body it was in bad condition, bloated and black 
in the face. We embalmed him with your Preservative 
and shipped him to Toledo, O., and the undertaker there 
said that the body came to him in the best shape of any 
corpse he ever handled and wanted to know what kind of 
“fluid” was used. E. & L. GUSTIN. 


Chicago, Ill., March 5, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am more than satisfied with the C. & A. Preserva¬ 
tive and shall continue to use it. F. CHAFFEE. 





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Eaton, O., April 14, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us a package of the Preservative and 
oblige, as we are out of it. Have been trying two other 
kinds, but they don’t do the work like yours and we do 
not think we will experiment on any other fluid soon. 

G. W. CHURCHILL & SON. 


Salem, Mass., Aug. 1, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send by express at once, a large carboy of the 
Preservative. I would say that after using all kinds of 
embalming fluids in the market, I am obliged to write you 
that your Preservative has proved the most satisfactory 
and I have had the best results from its use. 

WM. H. CHANDLER, 

And again, Oct. 5, 1885: 

Crane & Allen: 

I cannot speak too much in praise of your Preserva¬ 
tive. It is the best I have ever used and I have used a 
great many kinds. WM. H. CHANDLER. 


Greensburg, Ind., Nov. 3, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us six or eight gallons of the Preserva¬ 
tive; we have but little left, and would like it sent 
promptly. A loud noise is made by the blowing of horns 
for other preparations, but our Mr. Siling says he has the 
grand confidence in both the Preservative and the men 
who manufacture it. 

GREENSBURG FURNITURE CO. 

And again, on Aug. 29,1885: 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best stock in the world, we 
think. GBEENSBURG FURNITURE CO. 




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Flemingsburg, Ky., April 7, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative very much. 

TIIOS. J. HINTON. 


Cincinnati, O., Aug. 11, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Excelsior Preservative is the “boss,” and we 
intend in the future to use it altogether. 

N. H. HACKMAN & CO. 


Danbury, Conn., Sept. 4, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are very much pleased in the use of your Preserv¬ 
ative. The results are very satisfactory to us. 

HAWLEY & SAYER. 


New Hampton, Iowa, Aug. 8, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have just used the Preservative in two cases, and it 
gave better satisfaction than any I ever used. One was a 
lady who died of inflammation and when I was called she 
was discolored badly and bloated and very offensive; and 
at the time of the funeral she was looking entirely natu¬ 
ral, and with not the least offensive odor. The other was 
a dropsical case, and when I went to take care of it the 
stench was so bad I could hardly stand it; but when I was 
done with it the odor was entirely destroyed and body 
as natural as in life. A. McDONNELL. 


Quincy, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We must say that your Preservative has given perfect 
satisfaction, and we intend to let well enough alone and 
use nothing else. MEANS & LEACH. 






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Winchenclen, Mass., June 23, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We had good success with the case, using your Pre¬ 
servative, last week, with four as hot days as we have had 
this summer, and the body looked A 1. 

N. C. MATTHEWS. 


New Martinsburg, O., Jan. 21, 1884. 

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M. II. BAILEY & CO. 




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GEO. P. REICHEL. 






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Office of the Morgue, ) 

St. Louis, Mo., June 7, 1883.) 

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. B. WIN OERTER. 


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GEORGE WITTER. 


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Crane & Allen: 

I find the Preservative all right, and it does not go 
back on me when I use it; it is sure every time. 

C. W. WATROUS. 






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Rusliville, Ind., March 6, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am out of the business now, but I will recommend 
your Preservative above anything I ever used; and I have 
been the means of having orders sent in to you by others, 
as I wanted my friends in the business to have something 
they could rely upon. WM. L. WILSON. 


Boston, Mass., Aug. 19, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The instruments are received, and would say that a 
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sprayer are needed improvements, and the entra long 
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B. E. MURRAY. 


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I have had always good results from the use of the 
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without any odor by the use of the Preservative. 

J. H. MILLER. 


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Crane & Allen: 

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was just as sweet six days after death as at first, indeed, 
much sweeter, as froth was issuing from mouth when we v 
took it under our care and commenced using your Pre¬ 
servative on it. The man died almost instantly in full 
blood and full health, and was a hard case to keep. 

J. F. YOUNG. 





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Wilmington, Del., June 30,1884. 

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The Preservative has proved very satisfactory. Have 
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Crane & Allen: 

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Crane & Allen: 

I send the empties back to-day; please fill and return 
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Crane & Allen: 

We shall want some more of the Preservative soon. 
We think that there is nothing equal to it. You may 
send ten gallons. E. N. FROST & SON. 






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Fremont, Neb., July 7, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

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we have used up what we have of it, as it gives perfect 
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We shall need some more of the Preservative and 
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GEO. M. ZELL & SON. 


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Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed is money order to balance account. Your 
Preservative has secured to us great favor with the 
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Crane & Allen: 

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I am in want shall order some from you. 

C. B. BEEBE. 

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I am highly pleased with your Preservative. A lady 
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the Preservative and kept her here until the next Wednes¬ 
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had the funeral there the next Sunday, seven days after, 
in those extremely hot days, and they write me she looked 
just the same as when she left, as natural as in life, and 
no odor from the body whatever. C. B. BEEBE. 





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Philadelphia, March 6, 1883. 
[telegram.] 

Crane & Allen: 

Send at once fourteen gallons Preservative. 

R. R. BRINGHURST & CO. 

Also letter, June 20, 1885: 

Crane & Allen: % 

Please find herewith check for $168.75, amount in full 
to date. Please send another shipment of the Preserva¬ 
tive. R. R. BRINGHURST & CO. 


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Crane & Allen: 

Please to send me, as soon as you can, five gallons of 
the Preservative. I consider it the best Fluid made, as 1 
have used it on some very difficult cases and it proved a 
success in every particular, when other kinds have failed. 
Hoping that you may still keep up the reputation for 
making the best Embalming Fluid in the world, I 
remain, Resp’y, G. B. CONN. 


Maysville, Ivy., March 28, 1886. 

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Send quick a carboy of the Preservative, same as last. 
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MYALL & RILEY. 


Altoona, Pa., May 15, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We received the Preservative in due time and are 
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saw the body the day of the funeral said it looked better 
than while alive. Had no occasion so far to keep any 
bodies longer than that. NOEL & ARTHUR. 





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Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 19, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I think more of your Preservative the more I use it. 
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Crane & Allen: 

It will not be long before I will need some more of 
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Crane & Allen: 

You will please send another carboy of your Preserv¬ 
ative at once. I embalmed Gov. McGoffin last Saturday, 
and he is still in a perfect state. The Preservative is 
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Crane & Allen: 

When you sent me the Preservative I had six gallons 
of another kind, but when I am out again I shall order 
more of you, as it is the best I ever used. 

C. STROPEL. 


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Crane & Allen: 

I had some other kinds of Fluid when I got your 
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Preservative on them I am satisfied it is all right in every 
respect, and I w r ant some more of it. A. WAGONER. 





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Hagerstown, Md., July 30, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative acts like a charm, and I am also 
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Galena, Ills., July 31, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are using the Preservative you sent last, and you 
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SCHERER, ARMBRUSTER & CO. 


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Crane & Allen: 

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We have been using your Preservative with perfect 
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WICKLIN & McMACKIN. 


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J. H. WUCHTER, 


Iligginsville, Mo., June 25,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best we have ever seen, and 
it has given perfect satisfaction in every case.' 

THORNTON & HARGRAVE. 







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Spirit Lake, Iowa, March 3, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I used your Preservative on a subject that had turned 
black in the face and brought it out as natural as life, to 
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D. R. BARMORE. 


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Crane & Allen: 

We received the package of the Preservative and 
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so we have concluded to stick to what we know by 
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Crane & Allen: 

Please send me by first express a package of the Pre¬ 
servative. I am telling people that with your Preserva¬ 
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Crane & Allen: 

Send us another invoice and it shall receive our 
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been first-class, and in no instance have we made a failure 
in its use. BRADRICK & SON. 


Lowell, Aug. 17, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have been using the Preservative and find it “fills 
the bill” every time. We like it the best of anything of 
the kind we have ever used.. TAYLOR & KOPF. 






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Hanover, Penn., Dec. 53, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I find your Excelsior Preservative to be grand for the 
purpose and would be glad to recommend it to anyone in 
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GEO. W. THOMAS. 


Whitewater, Wis., Dec. 5, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have used none other but your Preservative but 
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Crane & Allen: 

I would have no other Fluid than yours as long as I 
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A. GEHRES. 


North Vernon, Ind., July 16,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Refill and return the carboy immediately, as I unex¬ 
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entire satisfaction and I am well pleased with it. 

II. C. VAUGHT. 


Sandwich, Ills., July 10, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given grand satisfaction 
wherever I have used it. I gave it a good test last week, 
when we had those hottest days, and the results could not 
have been better. C. P. WALTER. 






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Gridley, Ill., March 5, 1880. 

Crane & Allen: 

I did not try your Preservative until last week, when 
I had a very bad case. The case was death from inflam¬ 
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mouth and nose. After two hours work with the Pre¬ 
servative I had him in good condition and kept him until 
the third day afterwards, and he looked as natural as life. 
I am satisfied that your Preservative will do all you claim 
for it. J. GILMORE. 


Waverly, Iowa, March 14,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are never without a package of your Preservative, 
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Crane & Allen: 

We think your Preservative the best of anything of 
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And again, on April 15, 1884: 

Crane & Allen: 

As far as your Preservative is concerned, we have 
used it six or eight years and have found no equal to it, 
and shall continue to use it. GIBSON & BECK. 


Grand Kapids, Wis., Sept. 20,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I was at the Wisconsin State Convention of Under¬ 
takers, and I find that your Preservative is used by a 
majority of the Undertakers of the State. I find it my¬ 
self to be the best of all. 

M. C. WAKREN, SON & CO. 





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Lebanon, Penn., Aug. 31, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I must say that your Preservative has done the work 
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Fluid above any other in market. D. A. FRANTZ. 


Peotone, Ills., July 26, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I want to tell you what I have done with your Pre¬ 
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death and found body bloated and smelling very bad, also 
turning dark. I treated it with your Preservative, and at 
the funeral he looked as white as in life—no smell, and 
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Preservative than I ever expected to be. 

HENRY FEDDE & SON. 


Arcade, N. Y., July 14, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We would cheerfully recommend your Preservative 
to Undertakers. By “ we ” I mean Mr. Ladd and myself, 
as he has been the one to use it, and with perfect success. 

W. W. DAYIS. 


Washington, Jan. 12, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We will order again soon. We have been testing your 
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yours first on a case, and another Fluid on the next, and 
so on alternately, and we find that your Preservative is 
all right. We would rather have it than any Fluid that 
we know of. ZANEIS & MILLER. 





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Ottawa, Sept. 22, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I had a large quantity of Fluid on hand when your 
Preservative was received, but I have been using yours 
lately and am very well pleased with it and shall order 
more when out. S. ZIMMERMAN. 


Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

> 

We have been trying some other kinds of Fluids, but 
do not find any that give as good satisfaction as yours, 
and we shall confine ourselves to its use after this. 

THEO. VanDUSEN & BRO. 


Grand Ledge, Midi., March 9, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We like your Preservative first-rate and*shall use it 
altogether when we need anything of the kind.- 

WEST BROS. 


Monticello, Jan. 20,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

When in need of any Fluid I will gladly send you an 
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I have been using it now for a number of years, and 
cannot find anything as good. M. BEIDERWOLF. 


Newton, Kansas, April 3, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We bought out Messrs. Schoonover & Sage some time 
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works charmingly, and has not failed to give satisfaction 
in any case. No trouble to keep a body any length of 
time. Please send us a carboy of it at once. 

KAUFMAN & HOEFS. 






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Camden, N. J., Feb. 28, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please forward to me immediately another carboy of 
the Preservative just like that you sent me before, as 1 
am very well pleased with it. F. 8. SIMMONS. 


Belvidere, Ills., Oct. 21, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have had excellent success with your Preservative, 
and think it the best there is and am much pleased with 
it. L. C. WILLARD. 


Beardstown, Ills., April 24,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have tested four different kinds of Fluids within 
the last year, and I find upon comparing them all together 
that your Preservative is the most reliable. You may 
send me a package of it. W. F. MOHLMAN. 


Broadhead, Wis., May 29, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are perfectly satisfied with your Preservative. 
We have tried several kinds and find yours is unsurpassed 
in doing the work complete, and it justifies the merits 
attributed to it. PAYNE & PAYNE. 


Scranton, Pa., May 23,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

In regard to the Preservative, I would say that it is a 
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it and can recommend it to be first-class. A. R. RAUB. 


Plymouth, 0., May 19, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is a good one and I will use no 
other as I have never found anything to equal it. 

JOHN BEELMAN. 







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Fall River, Mass., June 14, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I received the two set of instruments and like them 
very much, everything about them being in all respects 
handy and compact and in every way first-class. I have 
had very satisfactory and flattering results with your Pre¬ 
servative, and have found it to be all you claim for it. 

E. S. RAYMOND. 


Frederick, Md., July 14, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have been using the Preservative, and it has 
proved successful in every case. A. T. RICE & SONS. 

And again, Sept. 26,1886: 

Crane & Allen: 

We are well pleased with your Preservative, and will 
continue to use it, A. T. RICE & SONS. 


Bloomington, Ill., Dec. 10, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Y r our Preservative gives us satisfaction and for pre¬ 
paring bodies for long shipment it is the best of any fluid 
in the market. We commenced using it in 1877, and 
occasionaly since then we have tried a number of other 
fluids, but our experience is that we can find nothing to 
equal the Excelsior Preservative for any embalming pur¬ 
poses, and mean to use it exclusively hereafter. 

J. L. WOLCOTT. 


Kalkaska, Mich., Oct. 7, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have used the Preservative with Excellent success 
and we shall be pleased to give you an order for more as 
soon as our stock of it runs out, as it is entirely satisfac¬ 
tory. CLARK BRO’S. 





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Bainbridge, Ind., June 12, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using your Preservative for some time 
and find it gives perfect satisfaction in every respect and 
shall want more of it soon. J. S. BLACK. 


Great Falls, N. H., July 18, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We enclose check for amount to balance. We have 
been using the Preservative and are very much pleased 
with it. A. D. FAUNCE & SON. 


Bay City, Mich., Oct. 1,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I will say this, having tried a number of fluids, I find 
your Preservative the best of any in the market. This is 
only my opinion, but I believe it all the same. 

H. F. SHANNON. 


Philadelphia, May 1,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us a large carboy of your Preservative at 
once. E. S. EARLY & SON. 


New York City, April 14, 1884. 
[telegram.] 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me a pkge. of the Preservative. 

CHAS. A. BENEDICT, 

60 Carmine St. 

And again, Jan. 10,1885: 

Crane & Allen: 

Send at once two pkges. Preservative. 

CHAS. A. BENEDICT. 






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La Porte, Ind., Aug. 3d., 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have had good success with your Preservative as 
you will see by the enclosed newspaper clipping: 

“ The bodies of Mrs. Rose Stern and Frank Malloy 
when brought to the city were given in charge of Mr. 
Weir, undertaker, and by him prepared for burial. That 
of Frank Malloy was taken to South Bend, and there kept 
until Sunday afternoon. Although held so long and 
moved so many times, so perfect was the preservation and 
so natural the expression that it was remarked: ‘He is 
not dead, but sleeping.’ Every one who beheld Mrs. Stern’s 
countenance will bear testimony to its perfectly life-like 
appearance, and that she lay as if asleep in her casket on 
the morning of the funeral. Taking into consideration 
the extremely hot weather; the manner of death and the 
length of time before burial, the perfect state of preserva¬ 
tion the bodies were in was remarkable and a credit to 
Mr. Weir, who has both skill and good taste as an under¬ 
taker.” 

We shall continue to use your Preservative, having 
had such remarkable success with it. WEIR BRO’S. 


Erie, Penn., March 7, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative proved entirely satisfactory, but 
while using it I was persauded to try another kind of 
which I have a large supply on hand. When used I will 
if I buy any, get yours as I think it far superior to any I 
have yet used, and I have tried nearly all. 

W. J. QUINN. 


Polo, Ill., Aug. 14, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have just opened a branch undertaking establish¬ 
ment at Milledgeville, Ill., and I shall need another out¬ 
fit of instruments and a pkge. of the Preservative. 
Although it costs more than some other Fluids, I consider 
it as cheap as the cheapest, and I know just what it will 
do. - M. SNYDER. 




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Peoria, Ill., Nov. 18, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is a good one, but I got onto 
another kind, I think after using both I would prefer 
yours for several reasons and am not going to use the 
other any more. GEO. F. TOBIAS. 


Hoyleton, Ill., March 30, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I had a bad case a few days ago in which I used your 
Preservative to my full satisfaction and hereafter I shall 
always use it. Send me the price of your Embalming 
Instruments. WILLIAM ROLF. 


Memphis, Tenn., July 6, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have found your Preservative to be all you claimed 
for it as it has given perfect satisfaceion wherever I have 
used it. Send another supply, same as I got before. 

P. M. STANLEY. 


West Newton, Pa., July 6, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Ship another carboy of the Preservative. 1 would 
have given the order before, but had some other fluid I 
wanted to dispose of first. I like the preservative best of 
any I have yet used. * S. M. SCIIROYER. 


Ellicottville, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed find money order, which please credit me on 
account, I have used your Preservative as long ago as in 
1878 and it gives the best satisfaction of anything I ever 
used. Q. E. RUST. 





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Spencerport, N. Y., June 22, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using some other fluid lately, but it does 
not restore the color as nice as your Preservative and I 
shall hereafter use yours. D. L. WALKER. 


Van Wert, O., May 26,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I expect to use your Preservative right along as it 
gives the best satisfaction. I never had it fail me yet. 

W. L. RANK. 


Delphi, Ind., July 6, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please send us by express a carboy of the Preserva¬ 
tive, same as last. It gave us very good satisfaction, and 
we do not want to change for anything else if we can 
help it. BRAGUNIER & COX. 


Brookfield, Mo., Sept. 19, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed is draft for last bill, and we will send to you 
for more of the Preservative before we are out, as we 
consider it the best. L. S. BOWDEN & SON. 


Cobleskill, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given me perfect satisfaction 
in every instance, and I consider it to be No. 1. 

JOSIAI1 130RST. 


Saliny, Kansas, Oct. 29, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: * 

Insomuch as your Preservative has always filled the 
bill, we shall continue using it in preference to any other. 

K1LIAN & WILLIAMS EURN. CO. 







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Nelsonville, Ohio, Aug. 25, 1882. 

Crane & Allen: 

I can say that your Preservative is the best Embalm¬ 
ing Eluid I have ever tried and will do all that you claim 
for it, and I will order some more soon. 

W. C. SIDMAN. 


Oshkosh, Wis., Aug. 24,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have used your Preservative with very satisfac¬ 
tory results. It does all you claim for it, and we would 
take pleasure in recommending it to any Undertaker. 

B. H. SOPER & CO. 


Michigan City, Ind., Jnne 28, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are in receipt of the Preservative, and I will 
say as the Undertaker of Michigan City that there is no 
use for any other Fluid for me. I have one case that I 
have kept several days now, through this hot, rainy 
weather, full of thunder showers, that is just like wax. 
Although a comparatively young man—of only 43 sum¬ 
mers—I have been an Undertaker for 20 years, and say 
without fear or favor to any one that the Excelsior Pre¬ 
servative is the “ stuif that knocks.” 

W. H. SMITH, 

Of Robinson & Smith. 


Menaslia, Wis., June 24, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

When in want of any more Fluid you will surely hear 
from me. 1 have not used any except your Preservative 
for the last five years, and as long as it proves as good as 
it has in the past, I will not chance any other kind. I 
have tried it in all kinds of cases and find it all O. K. 

T. D. PHILLIPS. 





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Earlville, Ills., Aug. 30,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are well pleased with your Preservative. 

BARNARD & RADLEY. 


Fowler, Ind., June 3, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative has given good satisfaction, and 
when I am in need of more will order of you. 

T. A. BALDWIN. 


Pinckney, Mich., Nov. 30,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please find enclosed draft to cancel bill of instru¬ 
ments. The outfit is far superior to what I expected, and 
I am well pleased with it. L. H. BEEBE. 


Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

When we get out of the Preservative we certainly 
will order, as it has given us perfect satisfaction. 

* BERK, FRY & CO. 


Utica, Pa., March 3, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We like your Preservative very well, and will order 
more when what we have of it is used. 

BAKER & YARD. 


Canton, Mo., Feb. 6, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best article for embalming 
purposes that I have ever seen or heard of, and you may 
rest assured that when I get out of it will send you an 
order for more, as I don’t want to be without it. 

' WILLIAM QUEER. 







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Highland Park, Ills., Aug. 20,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Excelsior Preservative is all that can be desired, 
and works A No. 1 in every case. I never had a failure or 
anything like poor success with it in all the years I have 
used it. It is the boss. EDWARD MEYNERS. 


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Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative works very well indeed, so that 
when we are out we shall want more of you. 

HENRY ALLEN & SON. 


Frankfort, Ind., June 15, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Find enclosed draft for $ 60 . 00 , invoice of April 16th. 
We appreciate the good qualities of your Preservative, 
and it has in every instance given us entire satisfaction. 

CHARLES L. WIRT. 


Traverse City, Mich., March 29, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has always given the best of satis¬ 
faction, and I would use no other. 

SAM’L ANDERSON. 


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We have given your Preservative a thorough trial, 
and find it all that you claim it to be. 

BEATTY & BROWN. 


Mondovi, Wis., Aug. 12,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used the Preservative with entire satisfaction, 
and I consider that it has been of great value to me. 

J. E. CHENEY. 







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Larwill, Ind., Jan. 1, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used your Preservative with the very best of 
success in every case and with the best of satisfaction to 
my customers, and I would recommend it to anyone in 
the profession if they want something they can rely upon. 

W. S. SMITH. 

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Little Falls, N. Y., April 23,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I will say that in our opinion there is no better 
Embalming Fluid in the market than the Excelsior Pre¬ 
servative. Were it not for the fact that we manufacture 
and sell our own Fluid, we should most assuredly place 
our order with you. H. A. TOZER & CO. 


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As soon as I use up all of the Preservative I have 
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I like the Preservative very much, and have recom¬ 
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Dyersburg, Tenn., sent for some by my recommendation. 

A. C. THOMPSON. 


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Crane & Allen: 

Please send another package of the Preservative at 
once. I kept the body of a man who was killed while in 
perfect health, while the weather was very warm and 
foggy. I consider your Preservative an A No. 1 article. 

O. T. SMITH. 






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Gallatin, Tenn., July 2, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have been using your Preservative and are 
pleased with it, and shall place another order with you. 

W. C. BLUE & SON. 


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Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, April 6, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Will return carboy to have it refilled with the Pre¬ 
servative, as it is all that is desired and gives perfect 
satisfaction. H. T. BIRD. 


Anna, O., June 11, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have given your Preservative a good trial lately. I 
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the body four days and four nights, while the weather 
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saturated cloths, without injecting the cavities. It was 
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Grand Rapids, Ohio, May 6, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with the results from using your 
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purpose as well. J. HACKENBURGER. 


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Crane & Allen: 

vWe are very well satisfied with your Preservative, and 
know of no reason why we should try any other Fluid, as 
there could not be anything better. 

GIERING & MARTIN. 






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Waukesha, Wis., Jan. 31, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am very well satisfied with the Preservative, and 
shall continue to use it. CHAS. GASPAE. 


Kenton, O., Sept. 24, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me a carboy of your Preservative. I have a 
number of gallons of other Fluid, but I prefer yours. 

* W. F. DAMON. 


Waterville, N. Y., May 5, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am acquainted with D. C. Whitten & Co., of Utica, 
N. Y., and they recommend your Excelsior Preservative 
for preserving bodies, very highly. I have used a number 
of kinds, and of course I want the best. 

JNO. SMITH. 


Bristol, E. I., June 26, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have met with complete success by using your Pre¬ 
servative the past season, and I like it very much; it 
proved a success in every case. GEO. W. SIMMONS. 


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Crane & Allen: 

We have used your Preservative for seven years now, 
and have had good success. It is the best that we ever 
tried. J. STAUM & SON. 


Corry, Pa., Sept. 2, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used your Preservative for years, and always 
with the very best results; and I have recommended my 
friend, Wm. Peacock, of Gowanda, N. Y., to use it, and 
he will send you an order. E. L. KING. 







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Red Key, Ind., June 25, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given us good satisfaction, and 
we think it splendid. J. CROWELL & SON. 

And again, from Summitville, Ind., Jan., 1888: 

Crane & Allen: 

Have removed here from Red Key and are in the 
Undertaking business. We used your Preservative form¬ 
erly and liked it very much. What are your terms now? 
We want some of it. J. CROWELL & CO. 


New York City, May 3, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed check for amount of bill. We find the Pre¬ 
servative to be very good indeed. 

CLAWSON & HAWKS. 


Hillsdale, Mich., Nov. 5, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative still gives the best of satisfaction. 
We have used it constantly a number of years—our first 
purchase of it from you was in July, 1877—and we never 
had a failure with it yet. HONAGHY & HOWE. 


Warren, Pa., Jan. 8, 1883. 


Crane & Allen: 

I have use your Preservative a long time, and always 
found it to give perfect satisfaction. 

P. GREENLUND, 
Formerly of Greenlund Bros. 


Hampton, Iowa, Dec. 4,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given good satisfaction, and I 
shall want more of it in the near future. 


A. M. GRAY. 






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Peoria, Ills., Dec. 17, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative very much, and must have 
some more of it soon. J. J. HUNT. 


Bourbon, Ind., July 28, 1883. 

CIiane & Allen: 

Allow me to say that the Excelsior Preservative is 
the best Embalming Fluid I ever used. I have got a 
corpse on hand now, and have had it since the 20th, and 
it is keeping splendidly with your Preservative. 

WENDALL H. SUTCH. 

And again, from Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 28, 1885: 
Crane & Allen: 

I have sold out to E. Mendenhall, and there was in 
stock a package of the old elegant juice (the Preservative), 
which I recommended to Mr. M. as being the best thing 
he could use, and I have no doubt you will have his order 
for more of it. WENDALL H. SUTCH. 


Union, N, Y., April 21, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using the Preservative for some time, 
and am very well pleased with it. I shall send for an¬ 
other supply soon. K. W. SPENCER. 


Lanark, Ills., May 17, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed is draft for last bill. We are offered 
“Fluids” for a song in comparison to price of yours, but 
yours has not left us disappointed when relied on for 
embalming, and we have had a number of bad cases 
which it has kept all right, and longer if it had been 
necessary. We shall continue with your Preservative. 

WM. STRICKLER. 





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Pella, Iowa, March 26, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is all right, and I saved some hard 
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as long as I can get it of you. It does away with the ice¬ 
box entirely. WILLIAM VERROS. 


Trenton, N. J., Eeb. 26, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please ship ten gallons of your Preservative by 
express at once. I go out a considerable to embalm for 
other Undertakers, but use a preparation for some of the 
work that I make myself, on account of the cost, but 
must have your Preservative for certain purposes. 

JAS. G. Van CLEVE. 


Mendon, Eeb. 20, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have had splendid success with your Preservative, 
and it is the thing to be depended upon. 

G. B. YORE & BRO. 


Towanda, Pa., Jan. 16, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have been using your Preservative, and so far we 
are fully satisfied and will send another order in due time. 

J. P. Van ELEET. 


Concord, N. H., Dec. 19, 1885. 

Urane & Allen: 

The Preservative is very good, and I have had good 
results from its use, and I can recommend it to anyone as 
lirst-class and always reliable. A. C. FISHER. 






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Titusville, Pa., Jan. 13, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used about all of the different kinds of Fluid 
there is made, and I give the preference to your Preserv¬ 
ative. - WM. DAVIDSON. 


Oshkosh, Wis., Oct. 11, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I shall use none but your Preservative, as it has never 
failed me yet, and I have used it a good many years, the 
first I got of you being in 1877. WILLIAM SPIKES. 


Argos, Ind., Oct. 21,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have some of the Preservative yet, but when T get 
out of it I will surely order more, for I would not know 
how to get along without it. A. T. SLATER. 


Richmond, Mo., April 5, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send us some more of your Preservative, and oblige. 
We think it the best there is. Have been trying another 
kind but do not like it as well, and we will stick to yours 
hereafter, as we are satisfied now that it is the best of 
any. J. S. SHOOP & SON. 


Chambersburg, Pa., April 4, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed you will find check for amount of bill of 
Jan. 14th. I like the Preservative very much. 

E. M. SMITH. 






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New Britain, Conn., Jan. 11,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We consider your Preservative to have no superior in 
market, at least any that we have seen. We have some 
poor stuff to get rid of and will then order. 

W. J. DUNLAY & CO. 


Franklin Grove, Ills., May 1, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I had some of another kind when your Preservative 
came, but yours is the one I will use hereafter, as I 
consider it the best. WM. CRAWFORD. 


Greensburg, Kans., May 16,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I had a good job of embalming to do May 1st, and 
kept the body until to-day by using your Preservative, 
and with first-rate success (16 days). 

F. E. DRESCHER. 


Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 18,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is first-rate, and does its work 
well. J. B. FRANCIS. 


Marion, Ohio, May 21,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative has always given me good satis¬ 
faction. WILLIAM FIES. 


West Milton, Ohio, July 29,1883.. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am still using your Preservative with success, and I 
expect to continue as long as it does the business as well 
as it has in the past. F. M. TOWNSLEY. 







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Akron, O., Aug. 25, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I sold out my business in Brockport, N. Y., to A. D. 
Dailey and recommended him to use your Preservative as 
being the best, and he was to send you an order. I am in 
the same business here and using some Fluid that was 
here when I bought the business, but not as good. Your 
Preservative gave me very good satisfaction in York 
State, and I will order some of you soon. 

G. S. THORN". 


Monroe, Wis., June 25, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I cannot be without your Preservative, for it is relia¬ 
ble every time; and I just sent some off to-day 30 miles 
away to use as a face application, the parties having heard 
of my having a wonderful article for that purpose. I 
have kept bodies with the Preservative a long time in the 
hottest weather, and they would be in just as perfect 
state as could be. F. SHRINER. 


Noblesville, Ind., June 21, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative came to hand all right, and we have 
been using it, and like it very much indeed. 

S. D. COTTINGHAM & CO. 


Ovid, Mich., Sept. 18, 1886. 


Crane & Allen: 

I have had splendid success with your Preservative. 


C. W. DANFORTH. 


Leipsic, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am very much pleased with the Preservative, and 
believe it to be the best thing of the kind in the market. 

S. WATTERS. 






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Clinton, Wis., July 4, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are nearly out of Preservative, and while many 
are pressing their claim to superiority of other Fluids we 
shall still give yours the preference, and you may send us 
a package of it, as we like it the best of all we have tried; 
especially for cleansing a tainted and offensive room we 
have never found anything to equal your Preservative. 
A lady remarked after using it about the house for a few 
minutes, “ It has done wonders.” 

M. P. TREAT & CO. 


Danielsonville, Conn., Jan. 14,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using the Preservative, and in all cases I 
have been well satisfied with the result. E. DEXTER. 


Newark, N. J., Jan. 16, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative very much, and am satisfied 
with it. C. W. COMPTON. 


Charles City, Iowa, April 21, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have been very successful in using your Preserv¬ 
ative, and think it most excellent. 

STEVENS, HERING & CO. 


York, Pa., Feb. 1, 1888. 

Crane Sc Allen: 

We are well satisfied with the results in using your 
Preservative. Have used our ice boxes but very little 
since using the Preservative, and only in cases when 
insisted upon. Had a body which was embalmed with 
the Preservative, disinterred after being buried eight 
months, and found it in excellent condition and very 
satisfactory. C. A. STRACK. 






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Muir, Mich., Oct. 4, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been offered “ Fluid ” for less than you charge 
me for the Preservative, but I have not bought any, as I 
know your Preservative is reliable and I don’t want to 
change. GEO. Y. SHAW. 


Bath, Y. Y., July 16,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Of all the different embalming preparations we have 
used, we like your Preservative the best. 


JYO. STOCUM & SOY. 


Weeping Water, Yeb., March 25, 1886. 
Crane & Allen: 

We like your Preservative, and expect to always con¬ 
tinue to use it, as we believe there is no preparation as 
good as it is. CHASE & CHUKCHILL. 


Westfield, Ind., April 8, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using the Preservative for years con¬ 
stantly, with the best possible results. T. WEED. 


Ashland, Ky., June 22,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am perfectly satisfied with your Preservative and 
would have no other Fluid, and you will hear from me 
with an order in due time. S. CASEBOLT. 


Succasunna, Y. J., Yov. 25, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

We like the Preservative very much, and use it 
wherever we can and when the prejudices of the people 
in regard to embalming will admit. 

J AUDI YE & HAYCE. 







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Nokomis, Ills., Dec. 21, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me another carboy of the Preservative. It is 
first-class in every respect. GEO. CULP. 


Carthage, Aug. 5, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I embalmed a body with your Preservative by filling 
the cavities and not the arteries, and kept it nine days in 
perfect condition, and that case has brought me a good 
deal of business. W. S. JOHNSON. 


Berlin, Wis., June 9,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are very well pleased with the qualities of your 
Preservative, and shall use no other. 

IIOEFT & TUCKER. 


Mt. Pleasant, Pa., April 18, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I think that your Preservative is the best of anything 
of the kind in market. I have tried them all, nearly, and 
yours is the best, not only for preserving the body but for 
restoring and retaining the color also. 

8. P. ZIMMERMAN. 


Dover, N. J., Sept. 21, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is a good article, and gives good 
satisfaction. j. l. Van LIE W. 


Detroit, Sept. 5,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have always found your Preservative to do good 
work and do it well. LATIMER & HAMILTON. 







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Necedah, Wis., Nov. 11,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have used your Preservative in a great many cases 
and find it to do good work and give good satisfaction. 

H. F. YOUNG. 


And again, Ashland, Aug. 30, 1887: 

Crane & Allen: 

I have removed, as you see, to this town, and with 

my son, W. H. Young. I have had the “-Fluid” to 

use here and find I cannot do the work and have the 
desired effect with it that I could with your Preservative, 
and have concluded to advise my son to use the Preserv¬ 
ative, as 1 have more confidence in it than any other 
Fluid, as I know its virtues. H. F. YOUNG. 


Kent, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1882. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is all right as to its qualities for 
keeping the dead, and after having prepared a body with 
it we never feel at all uneasy as to the probabilities of its 
keeping nicely. IIERRIFF & REED. 


Rock Island, Ill., March 26, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative better than anything I have 
ever used, because of its good qualities and its deodoriz¬ 
ing properties. C. D. KNOX. 


Philadelphia, July 26, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

The cabinet of instruments is received, and we would 
say that it is the most complete and elegant outfit for 
Embalmers’ use that we have yet seen. 

II. C. SHURTLEFF, 

3722 Market St. 






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New York City, May 24, 1882. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am a great deal better satisfied when using your 
Preservative than formerly, when having to depend upon 
ice; and I have preserved and buried about 200 bodies 
since I received the first quantity of your Preservative. 
About the 1st of last February I embalmed with it one of 
our prominent men and the remains laid in the receiving 
tomb at Woodlawn Cemetery until last Saturday after¬ 
noon, when I opened the casket and found him in as good 
condition as when first put in, and he was seen by about 
20 persons, including some of the cemetery officials, who 
can vouch for the facts as I have stated them. I also 
embalmed a body with the Preservative and shipped it to 
Troy, N. Y., which was buried three weeks after, in a 
perfect state of preservation. The casket was opened 
then by the Undertaker, and the remains were kissed by 
the widow. This I have from her own statement. 

JOHN W. LYON, 

74 and 76 E. 125th St. 


Pendleton, Ind., Oct. 8,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have had splendid success with your Preservative 
and as soon as I can use any more will order. 

C. B. KEESLING. 


Oswego, N. Y., May 4, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I use your Excelsior Preservative in preference to 
anything else of the kind, and believe it to be first-class. 

JOHN F. I)AIN. 


Bacine, Wis., Oct. 24,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Enclosed find draft in full of account. Your Preserv¬ 
ative has given us good satisfaction. 

S. G. AUGUSTINE & SON. 





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Rushsylvania, Ohio, Sept. 10,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative gives good satisfaction in the most 
difficult cases. WRIGHT BROS. 

And again, Aug. 7, 1886: 

Crane & Allen: 

We are using the Preservative quite freely and with 
great success, as we have had some bad cases of late, 
from deaths by dropsy, heart disease, and cancer of the 
bow r els, in all of which we have been complimented for 
the manner we have handled the cases, and Crane. & 
Allen’s Preservative was our reliance in all. 

WRIGHT BROS. 


IN ew Carlisle, Ind., March 13, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have this much to say in regard to your Preserva¬ 
tive, that I do not expect to use any other, as I have been 
successful in the use of it. S. L. ARGABRITE. 


Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 20, 1885. 
Crane & Allen: 

We have used your Preservative altogether the past 
year (except a short time when we got out of it and that 
shipment of it was delayed on the way), and we are much 
pleased with it. We have kept bodies with it for 10 or 12 
days and sent them to distant places for interment, and 
in the most perfect condition. HOLMES & CO. 


North Bend, Neb., March 11, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Part of thd Preservative was burned up at the time 
my store was burned, so I shall have to have some more, 
and yours suits me so well you can send me another 
supply, as I am satisfied I cannot do better. 

A. CRAWFORD. 

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Tiffin, Ohio, April 21, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am having the very best success with your Preserv¬ 
ative, and do not have to take out my ice box any more. 

C. W. HORN. 


Peru, Ills., Nov. 23,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative does all you claim for it, and we 
are perfectly satisfied with it. HAAS & WASSOM. 


Parker City, Pa., Feb. 23, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with the Preservative, and will 
order soon. S. J. ERYIN. 


Fort Dodge, Iowa, April 8, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

As soon as we are out of the Preservative, we shall 
want some more, as we consider it the best there is. 

EIKER & KINO. 


Morrisonville, Ill., March 21,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is perfect, and I have been very 
successful with it. I have kept bodies ten days with it, 
with only partial embalming. W. II. DRAKE. 


Oeneseo, Ills., Oct. 13, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with your Preservative, and shall 
order more in due time. D. F. ZIMMERMAN. 








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Castile, N. Y., May 31,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with the results in using your Pre¬ 
servative, which I have been using since 1882. Have just 
given it a good test in shipping a body embalmed with it 
to California, which reached there in a perfect state of 
preservation, after being on the railroad one week. 

J. H. Van ARSDALE. 


Milan, Tenn., April 30,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I take pleasure in saying in regard to your Excelsior 
Preservative that it will do all you say it will. The longer 
1 keep a corpse with it, the more life-like it looks. 

J. W. TOXIN (PER. 


Marion, Ind., April 14, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have sold our business, which accounts for our 
not ordering your Preservative. We regard your prepa¬ 
ration as perfectly reliable, and we have recommended it 
to our successor, J. W. Kelly, and believe he has already 
ordered from you. WHISLER & COX. 


Dodgeville, Wis., Aug. 11, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have some of the Preservative yet, but I will not 
let it run too low before ordering more, as I would not be 
without it. F. C. BARTLE. 


Woodbury, X. J., April 9, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am using the Excelsior Preservative, and find it 
excellent for embalming and for removing discoloration. 

E. CATLETT. 






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Beaver, O., Aug. 25, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative lias given perfect satisfaction. 
One case of a very corpulent man in the very warmest 
weather, and the physicians present at the time of death 
said it would be impossible to keep the body 24 hours, 
but with the Preservative it was kept in first-rate condi¬ 
tion and from all appearances it would have kept for 
weeks longer. B. F. WEST. 


Bradford, Ohio, ISTov. 6, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

W r e have gained a good reputation in caring for the 
dead by using your Preservative, and have had the very 
best success with it. One lady told us that by our prepar¬ 
ing the dead for burial we had taken all the fear and 
horror from her mind, as they lay as though they were in 
sleep and at rest, looking really pleasant and lovely even 
in death. WILLIAMSON & SON. 

And again, June 6,1887: 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Excelsior Preservative is the best of any we 
have yet tried. WILLIAMSON & SON. 


Martinsburg, West Va., June 1, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative gives perfect satisfaction. We 
have given it some severe tests and find it does its work 
splendid, and therefore we cannot dispense with its use. 

WILLIAM W1LEN & SONS. 


Portland, Ind., July 28, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has given very good satisfaction 
and has never failed yet, and I have used it in a great 
many cases. JOHN CRING. 





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Bement, 111., April 19, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I consider that I have had a good test of the merits 
of your Preservative. I embalmed a body with it and 
kept it here four days, and then the friends started with 
it to Massachusetts, and it arrived at its destination in 
perfect condition. I only filled the cavities and did not 
inject the arteries, and of course with full embalming it 
could have been carried anywhere and kept as long as 
wanted, at least that is my experience of your Preserv¬ 
ative. J. H. CAMP. 


Darlington, Wis., May 30, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with your Preservative, and you 
may send me another package by express right away. 

F. CORNELIUS. 


* Van Wert, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been very successful with the Preservative, 
and consider it is all you claim it to be. 

J. H. CONOVER. 


Pittsfield, Ills., Sept. 24, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative has worked like a charm, and when 
what we have is used will order more. 

WINANS & PLATNER. 


Lake Village, N. H., Oct. 13,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have had good success with the Preservative, and 
shall order more before I am quite out. In every case it 
has worked satisfactory. E. D. WARD. 






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Knoxville, Sept. 11, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is received in good order. I would 
say that I have used it for the last four or five years with 
perfect satisfaction in every case. I can take a corpse 
that is badly discolored and with the Preservative can 
make it as white as marble in a few hours and remove all 
the bad smell. E. D. YOUNG. 


Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Oct. 24,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well satisfied of the merits of your Preservative 
and will use none other. 17111 want more of it soon. 

J.E. WILCOX. 


Bluffton, O., Sept. 12,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I now return carboy to have it refilled with the Pre¬ 
servative and shipped back to me. Have had very good 
success with it. One case I had last June, for which I 
was called on the 20th, and kept the body until the 28th 
with the Preservative, and it looked more natural and 
better then than at the time of death. The friends of 
the deceased were all very well satisfied. 

WM. WILSON. 


Decatur, Ills., March 10, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have no use for any other Fluid than yours, as it is 
not cheap Fluid that I want. The best is the cheapest, 
and I have always found your Preservative to be the best. 

J. B. BULLARD. 


Rockland, Maine, N ov. 3, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have given your Preservative some very severe 
tests, and have found it to work splendidly. 

N. A. & S. II. BURPEE. 






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Howell, Mich., Aug. 7, 1886. 

We use your Preservative in preference to anything 
else of the kind, as we have had splendid results with it 
and it works like a charm in every instance. In one case 
a body was taken to Lima, Ohio, in charge of other par¬ 
ties, who undertook to keep it by the use of another 
preparation, and were finally obliged to come to us and 
get some of the Preservative to keep it in good condition. 

II. GOODRICH. 


Hartford City, April 5, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I will say this about your Preservative, that I prefer 
it to any other Fluid I ever used. W. H. GABLE. 


Omaha, Neb., June 10, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have sold out my Undertaking here to H. K. Burket 
and turned over to him the stock I had of your Preserv¬ 
ative, and have urged him to use none but the. best, and 
yours I know is the best there is. F. S. HUNN. 


Avilla, Ind., April 21, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is all that could be desired, and 
wherever I have used it it has given perfect satisfaction. 

G. S. HENRY. 


Ottawa, Kansas., April 13, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Ship me two carboys of Excelsior Preservative. We 
have used nearly all of the last and it is giving good 
satisfaction. D. HOLADAY. 








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Titusville, Penn., Oct. 9, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I congratulate you upon having such an excellent 
embalming preparation as your Preservative proves to be. 

E. T. HALL. 


Maynard, Mass., Sept. 22, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I like your Preservative very well, and when I want 
any intend to order of you. O. S. FOAVLER. 


Elmore, O., Jan. 21, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

AVe are well suited with your Preservative, and 
would have no other. DOLPH & ICKES. 


Harrison, Mich., Aug. 27,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the boss, and I will want some 
more of it when out. J. H. CANFIELD. 


Paris, Ills., Nov. 19,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

AVe like your Preservative better than any Fluid that 
we know of. HODGE BROS. 


Muncie, Ind., June 22, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

AVe have tried the Preservative and find it all right 
and to do good work. AVe just used it on a very difficult 
€ase, and we feel entirely satisfied with it. 

AVRIGHT & PHILLIPS. 







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Gallipolis, 0., Jan. 31,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

While I was in partnership with C. M. Richards at 
Wellston, O., we used your Preservative and liked it very 
much, and you may send me a carboy of it here, as I have 
located at this place in the Undertaking business. I can 
buy Fluids for less than yours, but I prefer yours because 
I can always rely upon it. G. J. WETHERHOLT. 


Kilbourne City, Wis., March 30, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative is all right and is the best thing of 
the kind I have ever used. A. WRIGHT. 


Torrington, Conn., Sept. 3, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have been using the Preservative this summer, and 
found it to be an excellent article. Send me another 
carboy about Oct. 1st. HENRY J. ASHLEY. 


Middlebury, Ind., Jan. 26, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative has given me the best of satisfac 
tion, and I would not be without it. A. HAINES. 


Westfield, Mass., Jan. 18, 1883. 


Crane & Allen: 

I am very well satisfied with your Preservative. 


C. K. LAMBSON. 


Virden, Ills., Sept. 9,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

As soon as we are out we will give you an order for 
some more of your Preservative, because we think you 
have the best thing out. HESS & HOUSTON. 

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Frankfort, Kans., Feb. 1, 1888. 

Crane & Allen: 

We are well pleased with your Preservative and shall 
continue to use it exclusively hereafter, as we have seen 
enough of the results from using it to convince us that it 
is the best we have ever used. MASON BEOS. 


Cicero, Inch, June 15, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best I ever saw, and I shall 
send in an order for some more before long. 

J. P. KEPNEE. 


Eich Hill, Mo., Sept. 8, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is giving good satisfaction, and I 
expect to keep it on hand hereafter. WM. LESLIE. 


Dodgeville, Wis., July 26, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

I enclose draft for last bill. The Preservative is the 
best thing of the kind I have ever used. 

B. T. DAYEY. 


Eeinbeck, Iowa, June 10, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I will send in for some more of the Preservative 
soon, as I like it tip-top. F. KOLB. 


Stillwater, Minn., Dec. 18, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

We like your Preservative, from its having been 
recommended to us and spoken of very highly, and we 
will use it. MULLEE & COCKBUEN. 







Weedsport, N. Y., Nov. 17,1886. 


Crane & Allen: 

I have started in business here, having been former¬ 
ly in Jordtin, N. Y., of Stewart & Laird. Send me a 
package of the Preservative, and also the price of your 
instruments. The Preservative I had always found to be 
the best. JAMES A. LAIRD. 


Anthony, Kansas, July 18, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I sold out in Michigan City to A. F. Earl, and recom¬ 
mended the Preservative to him as being the best there 
is, and you can count on one more customer. We shall 
use it here also. E. G. MERRILL, 

Of Anthony Furn. Co. 


North Manchester, Ind., March 28, 1883. 
Crane & Allen: 

I bought out S. A. Argabrite and am doing the 
Undertaking business here. Mr. A. says that I can rely 
upon the Preservative as being the best, and what I have 
used of it so far has proved it. JACOB MISENER. 


Beaver Dam, Wis., Oct. 24, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

The Preservative has given such good satisfaction 
that you may expect an order from us for more, as soon 
as w r e use up the last. JNO. McKINSTRY & SON. 


Seymour, Ind., July 15, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

In regard to your Preservative, I would say that it is 
giving entire satisfaction. C. H. HANCOCK. 






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Dysart, Iowa, Oct. 3,1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

I am well pleased with your Preservative, and will 
send for more before I am entirely out. 

J. T. KRANBUEHL. 


Columbus, O., Eeb. 1,1888. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have removed to this city and opened up in the 
Undertaking business again, and as 1 have formerly used 
your Preservative and found it to prove satisfactory in 
every case I want it again, and you may ship me a carboy 
of it. H. A. PLETCHER. 


Forest, Ohio, Oct. 13,1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative is the best I ever used. It does its 
work perfect in every way. W. McKEAN. 


Palmyra, Mo., Jan. 15,1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me another carboy of the Preservative March 
1st; have enough until then. I used some other kinds 
last summer, but shall use more of yours hereafter, as I 
like it better. THOS. MARTIN. 


Corning, N. Y., Eeb. 1,1888. 

Crane & Allen: 

I just emptied the last carboy and returned to you by 
freight four empty ones, and brought down from the 
freight house the four full ones of last shipment. I find 
that the Preservative stood the test of the last cold 
weather all right, and think that it will stand the sever¬ 
est test of cold. J. W. DARRIN. 






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Jackson, Ohio, July 31, 1883. 

Crane & Allen: 

We have had good success with the Preservative, and 
shall use nothing else, as we like it the best. 


H. H. MARSHMAN & CO. 


New Washington, O., Jan. 10, 1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Send me a set of your instruments. Your Preserva¬ 
tive is the best I ever used, and I will give you a call for 
more as soon as I am out of it. C. KAHLER. 


Peru, Ind., Aug. 12, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative still gives good satisfaction, and I 
am using no other. JOHN S. LENHART. 


Erie, Nov. 4, 1885. 

Crane & Allen: 

I shall send you an order for some more of the Pre¬ 
servative in the near future. Am having grand success 
with it. A. A. MATTHEWS. 


Tipton, Iowa, Ang. 2, 1887. 

Crane & Allen: 

Please fill and return to me the carboy I send. The 
Preservative does its work nicely. M. H. MILLER. 


Villisca, Iowa, May 21,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I have never had a failure with your Preservative. I 
embalmed two bodies with it, and only gave them cavity 
embalming, and sent them to New York and they kept 
seven days very fine. E. W. PAYNE. 







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Vassal*, Mich., March 22, 1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative has always proven entirely satis¬ 
factory, and I have had excellent success with it. 

M. D. NORTH. 


Homer, Ills., March 13,1884. 

Crane & Allen: 

Your Preservative gives good satisfaction. Last 
winter I had some of it in bottles, setting by the side of 
another kind, and that froze and bursted the bottles, but 
yours did not. J. R. OCHELTREE. 


River Falls, Wis., March 7,1886. 

Crane & Allen: 

I find your Preservative is just the thing I want, and 
it bears out the reports of others, who told me they have 
used it with good success. J. H. PATTERSON. 






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NOTE. 


We would more particularly urge upon your attention 
the care that should be taken in keeping this Manual 
of Instruction from the observation of any person 
other than yourself, for reasons which we trust will 
appear plain to you; that, as it contains all of the prac¬ 
tical knowledge of the present day on the subject of 
Embalming, so plainly demonstrated in the Manual as 
to be easily acquired by any person who might have the 
opportunity of studying the book; therefore it is clearly 
in your interest to keep it in such a safe place that no 
one but yourself can have access to it, otherwise it might 
be the very means of educating and qualifying some 
person who might sooner or later come into competition 
with you, to the great injury of your business. 

We endeavor to protect our customers by refusing to 
fill all orders for the Preservative from any persons who 
are not regularly engaged in the Undertaking business, 
and we would not furnish the Manual to any other than 
our customers under any circumstances. See card pasted 
on inside of the front cover. 



TO OUR CUSTOMERS. 


A few of our customers have, from time to time, 

called us to order (as it were) hv reason of the cost of the 

♦ 

Excelsior Preservative, and to such we would say that 
the first cost to manufacture the Preservative is from 
five to eight times more than any of the poison water 
“ Fluids ” that have ever come under our observation, and 
among all classes of merchandise, we know of nothing 
that is put on the market at so small a margin of profit 
as the Excelsior Preservative. We are now down to bed 
rock, with only a very small margin above actual cost. 
Nevertheless, we are sticking to it by reason of the con¬ 
tinued increase of trade, which we trust in time will 
enable us to say that large sales and small profits are 
sure to win in the long run. 

We trust that this explanation will be satisfactory to 
those of our customers who have written us, and will 
only say in conclusion that a small reduction in price 
would now drive us out of the market, which we feel 
sure you would regret. 

We ask your patronage and support in order that we 
can continue to float the only honest and reliable article 
of its kind that has ever been put on the market, at the 
smallest possible margin of profits. 

Respecfully yours, 

CRANE & ALLEN. 



Index to Letters. 




Abbott, J. L.,_ 

Albaugh & Lanum,_ 

Albright, J. W.,_ 

Allen, Henry & Son,_ 

Allington, J. W.,- 

Anderson, S.,_ 

Andrews, R. T.,_ 

Applegate, J. L.,_ 

Argabrite, S. L.,_ 

Ashley, H. J ,_ 

Atkinson Bros.,_ 

Augustine, S. G. & Son, 

Bacon, C.,_ 

Bailey, M. H. & Co.,_ 

Balnbridge & Hause,_ 

Baker, S. S.,_ 

Baker & Yard_ 

Baldwin, T. A.,_ 

Barmore, D. R.,_ 

Barnard & Radley,_ 

Barnes, James,_ 

Barrett, D.,- 

Bartle, F. C.,_ 

Bassett, E. F.,_ 

Bauder, S. E.,- 

Bauer, Wm.,- 

Baxter, D. A.,- 

Beard, T. & Co.,- 

Beatty & Brown,- 

Bechstein, Chas. & Co.,_. 

Beebe, C. B.,- 

Beebe, L. H.,- 

Beelman, John,- 

Beider wolf, M.,- 

Belden, J. T.,- 

Benedict, Chas. A.,- 

Berk, Fry & Co.,- 

Bird, H. T.,___ 

Bishop, A. F.,- 


.Northfleld, Yt.,_._ 

.Circleville, O.,_ 

.E. Liverpool, 0.,__ 

.Norwich, Conn.,_ 

.Webster City, la., 
.Traverse City, Mich., 
.Thomaston, Conn., 

.Anna, O.,_ 

.New Carlisle, Ind , 
Torrington, Conn., 

.Pecatonica, Ill.,_ 

.Racine, Wis.,_ 

.Baraboo, Wis.,_ 

.Chillicothe, Ill.,_ 

.Clinton, Mich.,_ 

.Chebanse, Ill.,_ 

Utica, Pa.,_ 

Fowler, Ind ,_ 

.Spirit Lake, Iowa, 

Earlville, Ill.,_ 

Grand Haven, Mich. 
New M^rtinsburg, O. 
Dodgeville, Wis.,_ 

Seymour, Conn.,_ 

Birmingham, 0.,___ 
Weyauwega, Wis., 

Rochelle, Ill.,_ 

Hudson, Wis.,_ 

Cascade, la.,_ 

Mancelona, Mich., 
Beaver Dam, Wis., 

Pinckney, Mich.,_ 

Plymouth, O.,- 

Monticello,_ 

Marengo, Ill.,_ 

New York City,_ 

Dayton, O.,_ 

Mt. Pleasant, la.,_ 

Mineral Point, Wis , 

















































































Rlaek, .T, S,, 

"Ra,inbridge, Tnd , 

PAGE. 

_ . 106 

Rlne, W n A. Snn, 

Gn.l 1 a t,i n, Ten n,, 

_114 

Bone, D. M. & Co.,__ _ 

___ Petersburg, Ill.,_ 

_ 91 

Booth, J. I. & Son,_ 

_Groton, N. Y.,_ 

_ 64 

Borst, Josiah,__ _ 

_Cobleskill, N. Y.,_ 

_109 

Bowden, L. S. & Son,_ 

_ Brookfield, Mo., 

_109 

Bowers, J. S.,_ 

_Waterloo, Ind.,_ 

_ 99 

Bradrick <fc Son, 

f barit.nn, Ta. , 

99 

Rragunier A. PnY, 

Delphi, Tnd., 

199 

Brewster & Co.,_ _ 

_Middlebury, Vt.,- 

_ 56 


Bringhurst, R R. & Co.,_Philadelphia,_ 

Bucher, H.,_Lisbon, la.,_ 

Buckhart, J. & Son,_Sandwich, Ill.,_ 

Bullard, J. B.,_Decatur, Ill,_ 

Bullock, G. W.,_Burr Oak, Mich.,_. 

Buren, A. B.,_Jamesport, Mo.,... 

Burket Bros.,_Creston, la.,_ 

Burpee, N. A. & S. H.,_Rockland, Maine,. 

Camp, J. H.,_Bement, Ill.,_ 

Canfield, J. H.,_Harrison, Mich.,— 

Casebolt, S.,_Ashland, Ky.,_ 

Catlett, E.,_Woodbury, N. J.,„ 

Chaftee, F.,_Chicago,_ 

Chamberlin, R.,_Republic, O.,_ 

Chamberlin, S. S. & Son,_Joliet, Ill.,_ 

Chandler, W. M.,_Salem, Mass.,_ 


96 

65 

54 

132 

85 

64 

91 

132 

131 

134 

123 

129 

71 
83 
60 

72 


Chase & Churchill,_Weeping Water, Neb._123 

Cheney, J. E.,_Mondovi, Wis.,_ 112 

Churchill, G. W & Son,___Eaton, O.,_^_ 72 

Clark Bros.,_Kalkaska, Mich.,_105 

Clarke, W. H.,_Edgerton, Wis.,_ 60 

Clausen, P.,_Albert Lea, Minn.,_ 90 

Clawson & Hawks,_New York City,_116 

Clement, A. T.,_Clarinda, la.,_ 82 

Cochonour, M. G.,_Casey, Ill.,_ 89 

Cohee & Spaugh,_Hope, Ind.,_ 54 

Comley & Bird,-Frankfort, Ind.,_ 61 

Compt n, C. W.,_Newark, N. J.,_122 

Conn, G. B.,-Greensburg, Pa.,_ 96 

Conover, J. H.,-Van Wert, O.,_131 

Corell, W. J. & Co.,_Bloomsburg, Pa.,_i_ 83 

Cornelius, F.,-Darlington, Wis.,_131 

Cottingham, S. D. & Co ,_Noblesville, Ind.,_121 

Couts, Jno. F.,-Clarksville, Tenn.,_ 84 

Cowan, J. S.,-Delphos, O.,_ 89 

Cox & Reed,-Hastings, Neb.,_ 81 

Crandell, S. C.,_Westfield, N. Y.,_ 57 





























































































Crawford, A.,__ 

Crawford, Wm.,_ 

Cree, R. S.,_ 

Cring, John,_ 

Cropper, E. S.,_ 

Crowell, J. & Co.,_ 

Crowley, J. & Son,_ 

Crumble, Thos. J.,_ 

Culp, George,_ 

Dain, John F.,_ 

Damon, W. F.,_ 

Danahy, T. J.,_ 

Danforth, C. W.,_ 

Darrin, J. W.,_ 

Davey, B. T.,_'_ 

Davidson, Wm.,_ 

Davis Bros.,_ 

Davis, J. M.,_ 

Davis, W. W.,_ 

Davis & Hover,_ 

Deckman, Geo.,_ 

Delano & Cooley,_ 

Demple, Geo. A.,_ 

Dexter, E.,_ 

Diggins, Geo. E.,- 

Dillman, A. C.,_ 

Dinning, E.,_ 

Disbrow, Benj. L.,- 

Dolphe & Ickes,_ 

Donaghy & Howe,_ 

Donnelly, Chas. & Co.,_ 

Drake, W. H.,_ 

Drescher, F. E ,- 

Dunklee & Easterly,_ 

Dunlap & McGoodwin, 

Dunlay, W. J. & Co.,_ 

Dunn, L. D.,- 

Earley, E. S. & Son,- 

Edgcomb & Ballard,_ 

Edwards & Corlett,- 

Eiker & King,- 

Eldred, H.,- 

England, Barr & Co.,- 

Ervin, S. J.,- 

Fay, H. W.,- 

Fedde, Henry & Son,— 
Feiten, John,- 


PAGE. 


.North Bend, Neb.,_127 

-Franklin Grove, Ill.,_120 

_Nunda, N. Y.,_ 89 

-Portland, Ind.,_130 

-Zionsville, Ind.,_ 89 

-Summitville, Ind.,_ 116 

.Hamilton, O.,_ 60 

-Chester, Pa.,_ 90 

-Nokomis, Ill.,_124 

-Oswego, N. Y.,_126 

-Kenton, O.,__115 

-Lexington, Ky.,_ 69 

-Ovid, Mich.,_121 

-Corning, N. Y.,_77,138 

-Dodgeville, Wis.,_136 

.Titusville, Pa.,_119 

-Morris, Ill.,_ 67 

.Alma, Neb.,_ 78 

-Arcade, N. Y.,_102 

.Ada, O.,_ 86 

-Malvern, O.,_ 67 

.Ripon, Wis.,_ 56 

.Bonaparte, la.,_ 67 

-Danielsonville, Conn.,_122 

-Marengo, Ill.,_ 52 

-Bryan, O..- 69 

-McKenzie, Tenn.,_ 56 

.Trenton, N. J.,_ 55 

.Elmore, O.,_134 

-Hillsdale, Mich.,_116 

.Covington, Ky.,_ 69 

.Morrisonville, Ill.,—,._128 

.Greensburg, Kan.,_120 

-Anamosa, la.,_ 70 

.Danville, Ky.,- 79 

.New Britain, Conn.,_120 

.Meadville, Pa.,_ 78 

-Philadelphia,_106 

.Cortland, N. Y„_ 49 

.Newton, Kan ,_ 49 

.Fort Dodge, la.,_128 

Gardner, Ill.,_ 86 

.Lebanon, Ky.,_ 86 

Parker City, Pa.,_128 

Marlboro, Mass.,_ 94 

Peotone, Ill.,-102 

Mishawaka, Ind.,_ 94 
































































































Feith, N.,- 

Fernald & Co.,_ 

Field, L. & Co.,_ 

Fies, William,_ 

Fillmen, Jas. M.,_ 

Fisher. A. C.,_ 

Fletcher, R. B.,_ 

Fowler, O. S.,_ 

Francis, J. B.,_ 

Frantz, D. A.,_ 

Frear, J. S.,_ 

Frink, Daniel,_ 

Frost, E. N. & Son,_ 

Gable, W. H.,_ 

Gamble, L. D ,_ 

Gardner, W. P.,_ 

Gaspar, Chas.,- 

Gehres, A.,_ 

Gentry, J. M.,- 

Gerstle, F. W. & Son,— 

Gibson & Beck,_ 

Giering & Martin,_ 

Gilmore, J.,_ 

Goodrich, H.,- 

Goodwin, Samuel,_ 

Gray, A. M.,_ 

Greene, W. Harvey,- 

Greenlund, N.,_ 

Greenlund, P.,_ 

Gustin, E. & L.,- 

Haas & Wassom,_ 

Hackenberger, J.,_ 

Hackman, H.,- 

Hackman, N. H. & Co , 

Haines, A.,- 

Hall, E. T.,_ 

Halst, J. F. & Bro.,- 

Hancock, C. H.,- 

Hansen & Huck,_ 

Hardy, H. W.,_ 

Hargrave Bros.,- 

Harrouff, J. A.,_ 

Hawley & Sayer,- 

Henry, G. S.,_ 

Herrift & Reed,_ 

Hershey Bros.,_ 

Hess & Houston,_ 


.Cairo, Ill.,_ 

.Austin, Minn.,_ 
.Clinton, Mass.,- 

-Marion, O.,_ 

-Pottstown, Pa., 
.Concord, N. H., 
.Cortland, N. Y., 
-Maynard, Mass., 
-Canandaigua, N. Y. 

.Lebanon, Pa.,_ 

.Binghamton, N. Y. 
-Watertown, N. Y., 

.Athens, Pa.._ 

-Hartford City,_ 

.Perry, la.,_ 

.Gilman, Ill.,_ 

-Waukesha, Wis , 

.Waverly, O.,_ 

-Louisiana, Mo., 

.Cincinnati,_ 

.Fairfield, la 
-Emlenton, Pa., 

-Grldley, Ill.,_ 

.Howell, Mich.,_ 

_St. Thomas, Ont., 

-Hampton, la.,_ 

.Rochester, Mich., 
-Warren, Pa.,_ 

H ii 

.Denver,_ 

.Peru, Ill.,_ 

-Grand Rapids, O.. 

-Staunton, Ill.,_ 

-Cincinnati,_ 

.Middlebury, Ind., 
.Titusville, Pa., 
-Memphis, Tenn., 
-Seymour, Ind., 
..Kenosha, Wis., 
-Lincoln, Neb., 
-Rockville, Ind., 
—Atchison, Kans., 
—Danbury, Conn., 
-Avilla, Ind., ___ 

—Kent, O.,_ 

—Gettysburg, O., 

—Virden, Ill,_ 
































































































PAGE. 

Hildabolt, H.,-Germantown, O.,_ 84 

Hinton, T. J.,-Flemingsburg, Ky.,_ 73 

Hiss, Sebastian,-Plainfield, Ind.,_ 59 

Hodge Bros.,-Paris, Ill.,_134 

Hoeft & Tucker,-Berlin, Wis.,_124 

Holaday, D.,-Ottawa, Kans.,_133 

Hole, R. & W. M.,_Salem, O.,_ 70 

Holmes & Co.,-Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,_127 

Horn, C. W.,_Tiffin, O.,_128 

Hosmer, M. W.,-Burlington, Vt.,_ 79 

Houston, J. E.,-Beloit, Wis.,_ 84 

Howard, M. D.,_Jordan, N. Y.,_ 85 

Howard & Dinsmore,_Carlisle, Ky.,_ 84 

Howland, H. F.,-Streator, Ill.,_ 63 

Hoy, A. L.,_DuBois, Pa.,_ 65 

Hudson & Tippett,_Shawnee, O.,_ 79 

Hunn, F. S.,_Omaha, Neb.,__ 133 

Hunt, J. J.,_Peoria, Ill.,_117 

Hurlbut, Geo. R.,_Dansville, N. Y.,_ 63 

Jacoby & Ryerson,_Wilton Junction, la.,_ 77 

James, J. P. & Co.,_Greenfield, Ind.,_ 70 

Janesville Furn. Co.,-Janesville, Wis.,_ 65 

Jardine & Hance_Succasunna, N. J.,_123 

Johnson, W. S.,_Carthage,_124 

Jones, Rob’t H.,-Memphis, Tenn.,_ 75 

Kahler, C.,_New Washington, O.,_139 

Kampp, Conrad,_Wheaton, Ill.,_ 67 

Karstens, C. N.,_Nebraska City, Neb.,_ 52 

Kaufman & Hoefs,_Newton. Kans.,_103 

Keesling, .C B.,_Pendleton, Ind.,-126 

Kenney & Dillon,_Hartford, Conn.,_ 68 

Kepner, J. P.,_Cicero, Ind.,-136 

Kilian <fc Williams Furn. Co.,__Salida, Kan.,_109 

King, E. L.,_Corry, Pa.,-115 

Knox, C. B.,_Rock Island, Ill.,_125 

Kolb, F.,_Reinbeck, la.,_136 

Kranbuehl, J. T.,_Dysart, la ,_138 

Kremer & Oplinger,_Wadsworth, O.,_ 66 

Labbitt, Henry,_Galesburg, Mich.,_ 61 

Laird, James A.,-Weedsport, N. Y.,_137 

Lake City Furn. Co.,_Lake City, Minn.,_ 52 

Lake, John,_Baltimore, Md.,_ 61 

Lambson, C. K.,_Westfield, Mass.,-135 

Landis, D. Y,,-Wooster, O.,- 66 

Landis, E. S.,-Coatesville, Pa.,- 51 

Lash, N. G.,_Montpelier,_ 59 

Latimer & Hamilton,_Detroit,_124 































































































Lawler, J. A.,_ 

Lawrence, A. B.,_ 

Lenhart, John S.,-- 

Leslie, Wm.,_ 

Lindsay & Wackman,— 

Lindsey, Jno. & Son,_ 

Lloyd, John,_ 

Logan, D. L.,- 

Long, F, M.,- 

Long, Geo. J.,- 

Luger Furn. Co.,_ 

Luke, Robert,_ 

Lyke, H. F.,- 

Lyon, Geo, C„- 

Lyon, John W,,_ 

Lyons, J. L.,- 

McCormick, J. & Son,— 

McCurdy, J, B.,_ 

McDermott, J. H.,_ 

McDonnell, A,,_ 

McKean, W.,- 

McKee, A, A.,_ 

McKinstry, Jno. & Son,_ 

Manville, Geo. E„_ 

Marsh, H. E.,_ 

Marshman, H. H. & Co., 

Martin, Thos.,_ 

Mason Bros,_ 

Matthews, A. A.,_ 

Matthews, N. C.,_ 

Means & Leach,_ 

Meister, Oscar,_ 

Merrill, E, G.,_ 

Merritt, Stephen,_ 

Meyners, E„- 

Miller, E. S.,_ 

Miller, Jacob,_ 

Miller, J. H.,_ 

Miller, M. H,,_ 

Misener, Jacob,_ 

Mitchell, N. B.,_ 

Mitchell & Beck,_ 

Mohlman, W. F.,- 

Muller & Cockburn,_ 

Murrell, Jos. P.,_ 

Murray, B. E.,_ 

Myall & Riley,_ 


_Eau Claire, Wis.,__ 

_Warsaw, N. Y.,_ 

—Peru, Ind.,- 

—Rich Hill, Mo.,_ 

_Oregon, Wis.,- 

_Mt. Sterling, Ky.,- 

_Worcester, Mass.,_ 

__Moundsville, W. Va., 

— West Chester, O.,- 

—Coal Centre, Pa.,_ 

—Fargo, Dak.,_ 

—Wheeling, W. Va.,- 

—Oconomowoc, Wis.,— 

—Fair Haven,_ 

—New York City,_._ 

—Greenfield, Mass.,_ 

—Mt. Vernon, O.,_ 

—Oskaloosa, la.,_ 

—Lowell, Mass.,_ 

—New Hampton, la.,_ 

—Forest, O.,_ 

—McLean, N. Y.,_ 

—Beaver Dam, Wis.,_ 

—Willoughby, O.,- 

—Rockford, Ill,,_ 

— Jackson, O.,_ 

—Palmyra, Mo.,_ 

—Frankfort, Kans.,_ 

—Erie_ 

__ Winchenden, Mass.,—. 

—Quincy, O.,- 

—Chicago,_ 

—Anthony, Kans.,_ 

—New York City,_ 

—Highland Park, Ill.,—. 

—Reading, Pa.,_ 

—West Milton, O.,_ 

—Edgerton, O.,_ 

—Tipton, la.,_ 

—N. Manchester, Ind.,_. 

__Oconto, Wis.,- 

—Wilmington, Del.,_ 

—Beardstown, Ill,,_ 

—Stillwater, Minn.,_ 

„St. Louis,_ 

_Boston,_ 

—Maysville, Ky.,_ 


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Nelson, 0. C.,-Cassopolis, Mich.,_ 

Noel & Arthur,--..Altoona, Pa.,_ 

North, M. D.,-Vassar, Mich.,_ 

Oakes, J. T. & Co.,_Pulaski, Tenn.,_ 

Oblander Bros.,_Bushnell, Ill.,_ 

Ocheltree, J. R.,_Homer, Ill.,_ 

Ogden, J. H.,_Massillon, O.,_ 

Olinger, J. W.,-Sante Fe, N. M.,_ 

Osborn, G. & Sons,_Michaelsville, Md ,_ 

Partridge & VanDusen,_Jamestown, N. Y.,_ 

Patterson, A. & J. W.,_Braidwood, Ill.,_ 

Patterson, J. H.,_River Falls, Wis.,_ 

Paul, Geo. Chandler,_Philadelphia,_ 

Payne & Payne,_Brodhead, Wis.,_ 

Payne, E. W.,_Villisca, la.,_ 

Pease & Br ght,_Wakeman, O.,_ 

Perry, Chas. L.,_Boston,_ 

Phillips, T. D.,_._Menasha, Wis.,_ 

Phlipson, Jno.,_Fox Lake, Wis,,_ 

Pierce, E. C.,_Blair, Neb.,_ 

Pickett, J. W. & Co.,_Mt. Blanchard, O.,_ 

Pletcher, H. A.,_Columbus, O.,- 

Postlewait, S. C.,_Chicago,_ 

Price, I. M.,_...Sunbury, O.,_ 

Queer, William,_Canton, Mo.,_ 

Quinn, W. J.,_Erie, Pa.,_ 

Rank, W. L.,_Van Wert, O_ 

Raub, A. R.,_Scranton, Pa.,- 

Raymond, E. 0. & Co„_Plymouth, O.,- 

Raymond, E. S.,_Fall River, Mass.,- 

Reichel, Geo. P.,_Macon, Mo.,- 

Rice, A. T. & Sons,_Frederick, Md.,- 

Rice, Geo. W.,_Pontiac, Ill.,.- 

Richards. C. M.,_Wellston, O.,- 

Ritter, Joel,_Coopersburg, Pa.,- 

Rolf, William,_Hoyleton, Ill.,- 

Rulon, Jno. C.,_Philadelphia,- 

Russ, Fred H. & Co,.-Chicago,- 

Russell, Peter & Son,-Ottawa, Ill.,—-- 

Rust, Q. E.,_Ellicottville, N. Y.,- 

Ryan, John F.,_St. Louis,- 

Salisbury, A.,-Oregon, Ill.,- 

Salm, Morton & Co.,-Sidney, O.,- 

Scheerer, Armbruster & Co.,-Galena, Ill.,- 

Schiela, J. F. & Bro.,_Mt. Vernon, Ind.,- 

Schroyer, S.,_West Newton, Pa.,- 

Seeber, J. D.,_Chenango Forks, N. Y„ 


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Shannon, H. F.,_ 

Shaw, G. N.,- 

Shoop, J. S. & Son,_ 

Shriner, F.,_ 

Shurtleff, H. C.,_ 

Sidman, W. C.,_ 

Simmons, F. S.,_ 

Simmons, Geo. W.,_ 

Slater, A,T.,_ 

Smith, E. M.,_ 

Smith, James,_ 

Smith, Jno.,_ 

Smith, O. T.,_ 

Smith, W. H.,_ 

Smith, W. S.,- 

Snyder, M.,_ 

Soper, B. H. & Co.,_ 

Spencer, K. W.,_ 

Spielman, J. R.,_ 

Spikes, William,_ 

Stagg, J. H.,- 

Stanley, P. M_ 

Staum, J. & Son,_ 

Stevens, Hering & Co.,— 

Stewart, R. H.,- 

Stocum, J. & Son,_ 

Stonehill, J.,- 

Strack, C. A.,- 

Strickler, Wm„- 

Stropel, O.,- 

Sutch, Wendall H„_ 

Taylor & Kopf,- 

Thein, H.,- 

Theile & Goodhue,_ 

Thomas, Geo. W.,_ 

Thompson, A. C.,- 

Thorn, G. S.,_ 

Thornton & Hargrave,— 

Tobias, Geo. F.,_ 

Townsend, L. P.,- 

Townsley, F. M.,- 

Tozer, H. A. & Co.,- 

Treat, M. P. & Co.,- 

Van Arsdale, J. H.,- 

VanCleve, Jas. G.,- 

Van Dusen, Theo. & Bro., 
Van Fleet, J. P.,- 


-Bay City, Mich.,- 

-Muir, Mich.,_ 

-Richmond, Mo.,_ 

-Monroe, Wis.,_ 

-Philadelphia,_ 

-Nelsonville, O.,_ 

-Camden, N. J.,_ 

.Bristol, R. I.,_ 

-Argos, Ind.,- 

-Chambersburg, Pa., 

.Barry, Ill.,- 

.Waterville, N. Y.,__ 

-Susquehanna, Pa.,_ 

.Michigan City, Ind. 

.Larwill, Ind.,_ 

.Polo, Ill,,_ 

.Oshkosh, Wis.,_ 

-Union, N. Y.,_ 

.Hagerstown, Md.,„ 

Oshkosh, Wis.,_ 

.Harrodsburg, Ky.,_- 

.Memphis, Tenn.,_ 

.Sycamore O.,_ 

.Charles City, Iowa,_ 

.Natchez, Miss.,_ 

Bath, N. Y.,_ 

.Dunkirk, O.._ 

York, Pa.,_ 

Lanark, Ill.,_ 

Lancaster, O.,_ 

.Los Angelos, Cal.,__ 

.Lowell,_ 

Oak Harbor, O_ 

.White Water, Wis,, 

Hanover, Pa_ 

Princeton, Ky.,_ 

Akron, O.,_ 

. Higginsville, Mo.,- 

Peoria, Ill,,_ 

Hulmeville, Pa.,_ 

West Milton, O.,_ 

Little Falls, N. YL,._ 

Clinton, Wis.,_ 

Castile, N. Y.,_ 

Trenton, N. J.,_ 

Jamestown, N. Y.,__ 
Towanda, Pa.,_ 


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Van Liew, J". L.,_ 

Vaughan & Hinman,_ 

Vaught, H. C.,- 

Verros, William,_ 

Vose, G. B. & Bro.,_ 

Wagoner, A.,_ 

Walker, D. L.,_ 

Walter, C. P.,_ 

Ward, E. D.,1_ 

Warren, M. C., Son & Co., 

Watrous, C. W.,_ 

Watters, S.,_ 

Weed, T.,_ 

Weir Bros.,_ 

West, B. F.,- 

West Bros.,_ 

Wetherholt, G. J.,_ 

Whisler & Cox,_ 

Whitcomb Bros.,_ 

Wicklin & McMackin,___ 

Wilcox, J. E.,- 

Wilen, Wm. & Son,_ 

Willard, L. C.,_ 

Williamson & Son,_ 

Wilson, Wm.,- 

Wilson, Wm. L.,- 

Winans & Platner,- 

Wingerter, B.,- 

Wirt, Chas. L.,- 

Witter, Geo.,_ 

Wolcott, J. L.,- 

Wood, Thos, H.,_ 

Woodring Bros.,- 

Wright, A.,- 

Wright Bros,,- 

Wright, N. C.,--- 

Wright & Phillips,- 

Wuchter, J. H.,- 

Young, E. D.,- 

Young, H. F.,- 

Young, J. F.,- 

Younger, J. W.,- 

Zaneis & Miller,- 

Zell, Geo. M. & Son,- 

Zimmerman, D. F.,- 

Zimmerman, S.,- 

Zimmerman, S. P.,- 


Dover, N. J.,_ 

Fremont, iSieb.,_ 

North Vernon, Ind.,_ 

Pella, la.,_ 

Mendon,_ 

Hudson, N, Y.,_'__ 

Spencerport, N. Y.,_ 

Sandwich, Ill.,_ 

Lake Village, N. H„_ 

.Grand Rapids, WiS;,_ 

.Windsor Locks, Conn., 

Leipsic, O.,_ 

.Westfield. Ind.,_ 

La Porte, Ind.,_ 

Beaver, O.,_ 

.Grand Ledge, Mich.,.._ 

.Gallipolis, O_ 

.Marion, Ind.,_ 

.Oxford, Mich.,_ 

Fairfield, III.,_ 

Mt. Pleasant, Mich.,_ 

. Martinsburg, W. Va.,__ 

Belvidere, Ill.,_ 

Bradford, O ,_ 

.BlufFton, O,,_ 

.Rushville, Ind.,_ 

-Pittsfield, Ill.,_ 

.Waynesburg, O.,- 

-Frankfort, Ind.._ 

.Storm Lake, la.,_ 

.Bloomington, Ill.,_ 

Murfreesboro. Tenn„_ 

.Waverly, Iowa,_ 

Kilbourne City, Wis.,._ 

Rushsylvania, O.,_ 

Liberty Cent., O.,_ 

Muncie, Ind.,_ 

Wadsworth, O.,_ 

Knoxville,_ 

Necedah, Wis.,_ 

Vinton, la.,_ 

Milan, Tenn._ 

Washington,_ 

Waynesville, O.,- 

Genesee, Ill.,_ 

Ottawa,_ 

Mt. Pleasant, Pa.,.. 


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